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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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    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

  • Staying with the Trouble

    Rebecca Solnit
    Meditations in an Emergency

    Some leave authoritarian regimes because of persecution. But some leave to fight from out of reach of the regime, and examples abound including from occupied France during the Second World War and Latin American countries ruled by dictators in the 1970s and 1980s.

    Published On: 05/20/2025

    Published On: 05/20/2025

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    Kevin Gosztola
    The Dissenter

    The “government’s interpretation of the Wiretap Act would unleash frivolous litigation and make the Act a magnet for arbitrary and harassing enforcement actions in the future.”

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Bill Moyers Helped Break the Media’s Climate Silence

    Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope
    Columbia Journalism Review

    Launching the Covering Climate Now media collaboration, he urged fellow journalists to “tell the story so people get it.”

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Denmark Fights Back Against Deepfakes

    Anna Desmarais
    euronews

    Denmark will give people copyright over their own likenesses as a way to fight back against generated “deepfake” videos, as countries around the world grapple with the rapid rise of AI.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • The Rage of Billionaires and the Frenzy to Stop Zohran Mamdani

    Norman Solomon
    Roots Action

    The oligarchs accustomed to such governance are furious that the nation’s capital of capitalism is in danger of serving people instead of megaprofits.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Why Hungary and Orbanism Must Never be a Model for the U.S.

    Michael Maya
    Just Security

    Those who praise Orban and argue that Hungary provides a useful model for the United States are gravely misguided or worse.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

  • Trump attacks on NRC independence pose health, safety risks

    Edwin Lyman
    Utility Dive

    The exodus of key personnel at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will jeopardize its ability to oversee the nuclear power fleet and slow the licensing of new facilities to a crawl.

    Published On: 06/30/2025

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