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“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction.

And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

― Howard Zinn

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  • Fascist Population Engineering: Yes to White Christian Births

    RUTH BEN-GHIAT
    Lucid

    If the goal is a White ethnostate, it is not enough to change the political system from democracy to autocracy: you also have to change the culture and the composition of the population.

    Published On: 05/02/2025

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • Attacks on ‘Black Smithsonian’ an effort to sanitize racism

    Bill Barrow
    AP News

    Civil rights advocates and historians expressed concern about a chilling effect across other institutions that study Black history

    Published On: 03/29/2025

    Published On: 03/29/2025

  • Local news publishers share how they survived attacks on press freedom

    MAX ABRAMS
    Freedom of the Press Foundation

    In a country that routinely distrusts and villainizes local news, these attacks did not occur in a vacuum; if they can happen in Clarksdale or Marion, they can happen anywhere.

    Published On: 03/28/2025

    Published On: 03/28/2025

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  • Emergency-Gate: Focus on Challenging the Premise of Trump’s Power

    Sherrilyn Ifill
    Sherrilyn’s Newsletter

    There is no trade emergency. There is no migrant emergency. There is no crime emergency. There is only a chilling and determined power grab by the most dangerous man to every occupy the White House. Eyes on 2026.

    Published On: 09/01/2025

  • Step Back and Take It In: the US is Entering Full Authoritarian Mode

    Jonathan Freedland
    The Guardian

    Trump’s dictator-like behaviour is so brazen, so blatant, that paradoxically, we discount it. But now it’s time to call it what it is

    Published On: 08/29/2025

  • Slain L.A. Times columnist Ruben Salazar matters more than ever, 55 years later

    Gustavo Arellano
    L.A. Times

    No one was around when I finally got to Salazar’s niche, in a section of the cemetery called the Alcove of Time. A simple bronze plaque included the accent over the “e” in “Rubén,” which his Times byline never had. Instead of Spanish wine, I brought a flask of mezcal — I don’t think he would have minded the stiffer drink in this 2025.

    Published On: 08/29/2025

  • The DC Night Patrols Are Showing Cities How to Fight Trump’s Occupation

    Dave Zirin and Chuck Modiano
    The Nation

    With only their cell phones, medical kits, and the confidence to assert their rights, volunteer night patrols follow and record the armed troops who have taken over the capital.

    Published On: 08/29/2025

  • The White House Is Its Own Media Outlet

    Dhrumil Mehta and C.J. Robinson
    Columbia Journalism Review

    The Trump administration is publishing articles that are top-ranked on Google News.

    Published On: 08/28/2025

  • Keep Calm and Protect Democracy

    Micah L. Sifry
    The Connector

    Instead of "catastrophizing" ourselves into despair, pay attention to the regime's weaknesses, including among the MAGA base.

    Published On: 08/26/2025

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