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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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    Ava Kofman
    The New Yorker

    The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

    Published On: 06/02/2025

    Published On: 06/02/2025

  • RSF World Press Freedom Index 2025

    RSF
    Reporters Without Borders

    The global state of press freedom is now classified as a “difficult situation” for the first time in the history of the Index.

    Published On: 05/02/2025

    Published On: 05/02/2025

  • Trump’s proposed budget would mean ‘disastrous’ cuts to science

    Science News Staff
    Science

    Key research budgets would shrink by one-third to one-half in 2026 spending plan

    Published On: 05/02/2025

    Published On: 05/02/2025

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  • Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

    Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik
    The New York Times

    Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics...

    Published On: 05/30/2025

  • The Case Against Leaving Trump’s America

    Ross Barkan
    New York Magazine

    Fleeing is a cheap, ego-flattering maneuver; it helps no one. This is not the late Weimar period or Nazi Germany.

    Published On: 05/21/2025

  • Trump’s Huge Tariff Hoax

    Robert Reich
    https://robertreich.substack.com

    A big lie is at the heart of Trump’s tariffs

    Published On: 05/13/2025

  • DOGE’s data “panopticon” pales compared to what’s next

    Nicole Schneidman
    If you can keep it

    If state governments surrender their datasets, there’s no telling how they could be abused

    Published On: 05/12/2025

  • Pope Leo XIV asks journalists to use communication as a tool for peace

    Sarah Ventre
    NPR

    We must say 'no' to the war of words and images; we must reject the paradigm of war,"

    Published On: 05/12/2025

  • Accountable Policing

    Shea Howell
    James and Grace Lee Boggs Center

    Holding police officers accountable when they commit crimes or violate constitutional rights is one of the most difficult things to do in law.

    Published On: 05/10/2025

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