We live in an era in which, from the White House on down, meanness has become normalized, become normalized. Music can provide an antidote, reminding us of who we can be, as anyone listening to Tim Sheard’s Solidarity Songs will discover.
"This book is not about Toni Morrison, Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author," writes reviewer Washington, "but about Toni Morrison, boundary-pushing senior editor at Random House."
‘Superman’ is the story of America,” Gunn explained. “An immigrant that came from other places
This new discovery of bitter taste can aid research into how humans evolved to be able to detect bitter tastes and why.
Nothing says "Happy Birthday, America!' like choking a guy out in the Rose Garden.
Poet Susan Kelly Dewitt takes us inside the mind and heart of the lockhouse.
"This book is needed," writes reviewer LeBlanc. "Instead of sharing hard-and-fast edicts, the kind desired by those with a fundamentalist frame of mind, Park advocates for courage and conversation."
Labor
How Labor is mobilizing to defend workers from federal raids.
The Trump administration has fired a majority of National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health staffers and is proposing severe reductions to its budget.
The three million-member National Education Association approved a measure that the NEA “will not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics.
The radical Republican budget bill steals from the poor to give tax cuts to the rich
In addition to the grants already defunded, the Trump administration has proposed setting a 15-percent cap on indirect cost reimbursements, leaving a gap many public colleges and universities would be unable to cover, the advocates said.
NYC’s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani fired back at President Trump’s threats to arrest him and revoke his citizenship over his pledge to block ICE deportations.
These lyrics were written by Abel Meeropol (who later adopted the children of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg) under the pen name Lewis Allen (1943); the music was composed by Earl Robinson. This 1947 cover by Paul Robeson includes all the original verses.
It was a crazy week. It seems like there are parallel universes, and somehow we slipped into the ludicrous timeline.
They're not trying to cure cancer, or save America. These companies want to make $100 billion overnight, and they're willing to sponsor dangerous laws to make it happen.
In the third and final episode of Along the Green Line, reporter Matthew Cassel heads to the south of Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won a stunning victory in New York City's mayoral primary, beating disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo
In comedian George Carlin's Emmy-nominated last stand-up special, he dissects American pride and the co-optation of God
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