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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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  • Taking Away Your Citizenship

    Joyce Vance
    Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance

    We’ve moved onto the next phase of the plan, where the Civil Rights Division, the once proud crown jewel of the Justice Department, will participate in stripping naturalized American citizens of their citizenship.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • White, Legally Armed, and Primed for Political Violence

    MIke Spies
    The Trace

    The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and glorifying combat — may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

    Published On: 07/01/2025

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  • ICE Is Out Here Shooting White Mothers Now

    Dr. Stacey Patton
    Dr. Stacey Patton

    Are we witnessing the end of whiteness as a buffer against state violence?

    Published On: 01/07/2026

  • The List of Countries Trump is Threatening With War Keeps Growing

    Jonah Valadez
    The Intercept

    President Donald Trump campaigned on the promise of getting out of foreign wars. He keeps talking about starting more of them.

    Published On: 01/06/2026

  • Spheres of Influence

    Anne Applebaum
    Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum

    This is a criminally short-sighted policy. For seventy years, American prosperity and influence have been based on a network of allies who worked with us, not because they were coerced, but because they shared our values.

    Published On: 01/06/2026

  • America the Rogue State

    Chris Hedges
    The Chris Hedges Report

    Our decaying empire stumbles forward like a wounded beast, unable to learn from its disasters, crippled by arrogance and incompetence, torching the rule of law and fantasizing that indiscriminate industrial violence will regain a lost hegemony.

    Published On: 01/05/2026

  • The Threat from America

    Carole Cadwalladr
    How to Survive the Broligarchy

    The next days and weeks are a test. What, if anything, will survive the blast zone of what is not just a military campaign but a targeted disinformation strike?

    Published On: 01/03/2026

  • The Full Transcript of Zohran Mamdani’s Inauguration Speech

    The New York Times
    The New York Times (Gift)

    "I stand alongside you, the tens of thousands gathered here in Lower Manhattan, warmed against the January chill by the resurgent flame of hope."

    Published On: 01/01/2026

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