Culture

In celebration of the United States’ 245th birthday, Holton offers six surprising facts about the nation’s founding document – including that it failed to achieve its most immediate goal and that its meaning has changed from the founding to today.

When it comes to war, Americans remain willfully and incorrigibly ignorant. We have paid dearly for that ignorance and will likely pay even more in the years ahead.

One conservative activist is weaponizing resentment over diversity trainings into an all-out, red-baiting culture war.

“Many are rejected from their homes. They’re not supported and held with everything that they deserve. And they have no choice but to be out on the streets, trying to survive.”

We urge members of Congress and the administration to pass permanent paid family and medical leave as part of a larger investment in our nation’s care infrastructure.

We most certainly can. We have history on our side.

Individual actions empower us to demand more from corporations and governments and change social norms. So let's get started.

If we do not stand up and protest this fanaticism... "He that troubleth his own house will inherit the wind..."

Have we entered America’s third era of reconstruction?

Is Juneteenth the national holiday going to fix the disparate outcomes for black people in education, health, income, wealth, home ownership, death by police, imprisonment, unemployment, and other inequities?