Trump, NFL protests and the price of freedom
A reader responds to Donald Trump’s remarks disparaging NFL players for peacefully protesting against the treatment of black Americans.
Take the knee: Athletes unite in historic protest against racism & police brutality, defying...
It was the biggest display of athletic defiance in years.
Jimmy Kimmel to Sen. Bill Cassidy: “Stop using my name!”
“Most of the congresspeople who vote on this bill probably won’t even read it.”
The right of return: Will Syria’s refugees be able to rebuild their country?
Western media continues to lend legitimacy to the extremists who have rampaged through Syria for 6 years.
Fox & Friends attacks public schools for teaching climate change and LGBTQ issues
Pete Hegseth: Parents “don't understand that even our public schools today ... have an agenda”
Los Angeles changes Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day
“This gesture of replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day is a very small step in apologizing and in making amends.”
How Exxon used the New York Times to make you question climate science
These oil companies were not as naive or uncertain as they long pretended to be.
5 things the mainstream media missed about Charlottesville
We can’t ignore the long history of white supremacist violence – and anti-fascist organizing.
Response to Nation article on single payer: Improved medicare for all is the solution
Throughout time, every great social movement has been told that it was asking for too much.
Family life without fossil fuels – slow and satisfying
A visit to the Possibility Alliance reminded me also that the one constant of life is change.