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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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    Nader Hashemi
    New Lines Magazine

    A visit to the ICE facility housing the Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Badar Khan Suri, whose case parallels those of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

    Published On: 04/23/2025

    Published On: 04/23/2025

  • Hundreds of scholars say U.S. is swiftly heading toward authoritarianism

    Frank Langfitt
    All Things Considered

    A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism.

    Published On: 04/22/2025

    Published On: 04/22/2025

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  • Trump’s FBI Spent Nearly $1 Million on Redacting Epstein Files

    Hafiz Rashid
    The New Republic

    A new report reveals the FBI’s frantic “special redaction project” when they thought the Epstein files would be released.

    Published On: 11/26/2025

  • Revolutionary Weather (and the Baboon in the Ruins)

    Rebecca Solnit
    Meditations in an Emergency

    Many Republicans saw that Trump was in decline, possibly rapid decline, and that their future lay not in the slavish deference we've seen for nine years but in separating themselves from him.

    Published On: 11/25/2025

  • Another COP wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice

    Genevieve Guenther
    The Guardian

    The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope

    Published On: 11/24/2025

  • Majorie Taylor Greene No Longer Trusts the Plan

    Anna Merlan
    Mother Jones

    After feuding with Trump, the congresswoman resigns and casts doubt on the QAnon conspiracy theory she once promoted on her way out the door.

    Published On: 11/22/2025

  • My Afternoon With The Last Living Prosecutor of Nazi War Criminals

    Michael Moore
    Michael Moore

    Basically, the Nuremberg idea was: No one is above the law — not even states. Not even powerful leaders.

    Published On: 11/21/2025

  • Stay Human: 80 Tiny Moves for Everyday Resistance in the Authoritarian Harm Complex

    Paul T Shattuck
    Progressive Strategy Now (April 12, 2025)

    What if staying human is one of the most powerful and most unappreciated forms of resistance? Shaping tomorrow and defeating tyranny takes more than big protest events and macro strategies.

    Published On: 11/21/2025

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