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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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  • Your favorite campgrounds, hiking trails, and forests could soon be up for auction

    Joseph Winters
    Grist

    Republicans want to make 250 million acres of public lands eligible for sale to housing developers.

    Published On: 06/18/2025

    Published On: 06/18/2025

  • Why a Professor of Fascism Left the US

    Jonathan Freedland
    The Guardian

    Marci Shore made news around the world when her family moved to Canada. She discusses Trump, teaching history and how terror atomises society

    Published On: 06/16/2025

    Published On: 06/16/2025

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  • ‘Some parents said they’d break my knees’: the teacher who exposed Putin’s primary school propaganda

    Amelia Gentleman
    The Guardian

    Grenade-throwing contests replaced PE and ‘denazification’ speeches became homework. Pavel Talankin’s undercover film about his school’s indoctrination drive won a Bafta and is tipped for an Oscar, but has left him in exile.

    Published On: 03/02/2026

  • Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms

    Doug Bock Clark
    ProPublica

    “The meeting shows that the same people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have only grown better organized and are now embedded in the machinery of government.”

    Published On: 02/28/2026

  • The Perfect Storm

    Gloria Horton-Young
    She Who Stirs the Storm (January 21, 2026)

    When warnings are everywhere, and still no one moves.

    Published On: 02/25/2026

  • The Children of Dilley

    Mica Rosenberg
    ProPublica (February, 9, 2026)

    ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

    Published On: 02/24/2026

  • The National Debt Is the Evidence of the Crime: Who Pocketed the $38 Trillion?

    Thom Hartmann
    The Hartmann Report

    The national debt isn’t the cause of our problems: it’s the receipt. It’s the paper trail of the largest upward transfer of wealth in 250 years of American history…

    Published On: 02/24/2026

  • The Extortion Presidency

    Lawrence Lessig
    Lawrence Lessig

    Anthropic in the cross-hairs.

    Published On: 02/19/2026

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