A Willful Amnesia

E. Ethelbert Miller Washington Spectator
This refusal to learn is the shadow of the Vietnam War that hangs over us now as our nation appears to be losing its soul and the Trump regime demonstrates not only how to ignore history but how to erase it, as if it’s an easily edited website.

The Best Signs of This Year’s May Day Protests

Maya Pontone Hyperallergic
From criticism of mass deportations to hilarious roasts of the president, May 1 was a nationwide show of art-filled resistance against the Trump administration.

Rallies in US Over Workers’ and Immigrants’ Rights

Rachel Leingang, Léonie Chao-Fong in Washington and Marina Dunbar in New York The Guardian
People organize in nearly 1,000 cities with focus on rallying against Trump administration and ‘billionaire profiteers’

US Defeat in Vietnam

Michael G. Vann Jacobin
The US invasion of Vietnam was a catastrophe for the Vietnamese people, resulting in millions of deaths. Fifty years ago today, the US-backed regime finally collapsed as North Vietnamese forces took control of Saigon.

Procreation Obligation

Rebecca Foust You Are Leaving the American Sector: Love Poems
Taking George Orwell's classic text, 1984, as her foundation, poet Rebecca Foust casts a cold eye on the pronatalism of today's religious conservatives.

Waltz Departs the Group Chat, Trump Departs Reality

Michael Kosta continues coverage of Trump’s 100th day in office with reports from NewsNation’s town hall, where the president racially slighted Stephen A. Smith and Pam Bondi’s ridiculous claims about fentanyl deaths