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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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  • This Is What Trump Does When His Revolution Sputters

    Anne Applebaum
    The Atlantic

    At each obstacle, after each catastrophe, the turn to violence becomes that much swifter, the harsh decisions that much easier.

    Published On: 06/11/2025

    Published On: 06/11/2025

  • Trump’s Bizarre Campaign to Bend the Art World to His Will

    Dana Liebelson
    The New Republic

    The president and his allies want to use institutions like the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts to challenge the left’s cultural power.

    Published On: 05/04/2025

    Published On: 05/04/2025

  • Trump’s Recession Has Begun

    Timothy Noah
    The New Republic

    It’s already in Seattle. It will now travel east.

    Published On: 05/03/2025

    Published On: 05/03/2025

 Recent News

  • The Storm Is Here

    Jay Kuo
    The Status Kuo

    Evidence for Trump’s direct participation may exist among the Epstein files that haven’t been released yet. That may explain why the Justice Department reviewed them for any mention of Trump and has tried to stonewall their full release.

    Published On: 11/13/2025

  • MAKE IT MAKE SENSE: The beginning of the end of Trump?

    The Ink
    The Ink

    We look at the sprawling, infuriating Epstein email dump and ask what this rare glimpse into the dark heart of oligarchic minds might mean for our broken system.

    Published On: 11/13/2025

  • How Joe Rogan Misleads Listeners About Climate Change

    Dana Nuccitelli, Yale Climate Connections
    Attention to the Unseen

    Of all the techniques in the climate denier’s playbook, Rogan relies most heavily on conspiracy theorizing.

    Published On: 11/07/2025

  • Urgent Times Call for Something Old And Something New from the Labor Movement

    Peter Olney and Rand Wilson
    Labor Notes (October 16, 2025)

    For workers to survive Trump’s MAGA moment and build a fighting labor movement for the future, both electoral politics (something old) and militant actions to disrupt business as usual (something new for many unions) will be key.

    Published On: 11/06/2025

  • Personal Resilience is Resistance

    Resistance Media
    Resistance Media

    Compassion, empathy, anger, grief and joy are some of the most powerful acts of resistance available to us

    Published On: 11/05/2025

  • From Mission Impossible to Mister Mayor

    Katrina Vanden Heuvel, John NIchols for The Nation
    The Nation

    If Zohran Mamdani governs as he campaigned, he will prove that the people have the power to shape their own future.

    Published On: 11/04/2025

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