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The 36-year-old city attorney is proposing debt-free community college and reinvestment in Black neighborhoods.

Americans should build this pivotal post–Civil War era into the new politics of historical memory.1877

Even when sensible adults finally take back government, “back to normal” is not what we want.

Daniel Kammen decries Trump’s attitude and policies on human rights and sustainability

The circus--as in Bread & Circus--is coming to town but as Oregon poet Amy Miller explains with brilliant clarity, it will not set you free.

Following the horrific events precipitated by white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members on Saturday in Charlottesville, VA, where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was murdered, President Trump shockingly came out in favor of the alt-right. The response by our community was swift. Some illustrators and designers created work anew, others re-purposed existing political art, illustrations and posters, and these began appearing in online publications and social media.

This last week has been surreal for my family. We lost one of our own in one of the most public ways possible. A man in a car ran down my cousin, Heather Heyer, because she decided to join her fellow Charlottesville residents against the neo-Nazis and white supremacists on their streets.