As 2015 Begins, Remember 2014′s Wins
The core message from last year’s elections wasn't that voters embraced the GOP’s right-wing values, it's that they didn’t want to elect namby-pamby Democrats. But there is now a chance to say “yes” to an array of progressive ballot initiatives.
The liberal arts are not disposable
A spinoff of a forthcoming book from Johns Hopkins Press about the value of the liberal arts.
Seeds of resistance
Reviving the peace movement in the age of Trump.
Back off, doom and gloomers. Offset grief by embracing looming, if chance Trump blessings
In a world no single force can control, one can still imagine the range of theoretical positives from Trumpism 2.0
The social impact of the Second Amendment
The state should be permitted to disarm its citizens to the extent it judges necessary to protect its own strength to protect its society.
It was the rage of the age
Was Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research facility in Suffolk County, pivotal to the spread of eugenics through the United States and world?
‘Only the people can save the people,’ say migrant workers
The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant rights.
Why not buy Israel, engulf it as a colony/state, then sell Ukraine to cover...
No one takes arms to protect Panama’s billions in unfair trade from our Canal. What other southern sh-t-hole place roars against the mightiest lion on earth?
How Mesopotamia’s urban and industrial revolution started politics as we know it today
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.
Project 2025: The MAGA plan to take your freedom
The country, it would turn America into would be hard for any of us to recognize.