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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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    Joseph Nunn
    Brennan Center for Justice

    The law, which lets the president deploy the military domestically and use it for civilian law enforcement, is dangerously vague and in urgent need of reform.

    Published On: 06/10/2025

    Published On: 06/10/2025

  • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

    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

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  • The Rev William Barber’s ‘moral movement’ confronts Trump’s America. Can it work?

    Adam Harris
    The Guardian

    Barber, the co-chair of the revived Poor People’s campaign, a national movement to challenge inequality in all its forms through moral protest and policy change, has spent years preparing people for moments like this.

    Published On: 07/05/2025

  • Calls to GI Hotlines Rise as Service Members Consider Defying Trump’s Orders

    Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
    Truthout

    Conscientious objector applications surge under Trump as military members fear becoming “the saber that he’s rattling.”

    Published On: 07/04/2025

  • CPJ outraged at ICE refusal of judge’s order to release journalist Mario Guevara

    Committee to Protect Journalists
    Committee to Protect Journalists

    The Spanish-language reporter is currently the only journalist in custody in the U.S. whose arrest was in relation to their work.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • ICE wants to work in secret. We shouldn’t let it

    Caitlin Vogus
    Freedom of Press Foundation

    While noncitizen journalists are the easiest targets for now, it’s abundantly clear that the government would like to criminalize journalists it doesn’t like, regardless of the journalists’ residency status.

    Published On: 07/02/2025

  • Nation of Fear

    George A. Polisner
    Leadership Matters

    How many believe that the representative democracy in the United States is healthy, strong, and working well as we evolve toward a “more perfect Union”?

    Published On: 07/01/2025

  • After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage

    Kavitha Surana, Lizzie Presser and Andrea Suozzo
    ProPublica

    A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

    Published On: 07/01/2025

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