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Our classrooms are not sites of demoralized children who hate themselves and their country. Students are hungry for explanations — real explanations — for the world they have inherited.

Snowflake, Los Espookys, and other media breakthroughs you should know about

Don’t Worry Darling and Barbarian want us to remember gender is scary.

Backed by faith communities, the housing justice movement is racking up wins against landlords and banks profiting off of what should be a human right.

Daniel Foote, the former special envoy to Haiti, has offered scorching criticism of plans to meddle in the ongoing democratic crisis that has gripped the nation.

Putin says he’ll do whatever it takes in Ukraine. Biden is warning of “Armageddon.” Sixty years after the U.S.–Soviet standoff over Cuba, why is nuclear war still an ever-present worry?

We need to build a far-reaching global mass movement to defeat the authoritarian, neo-fascist threat to democratic rights and a better, more egalitarian future.

Cracks have started to appear in red states’ anti-union front.

The protests of 2020 revealed the extent to which our political movements are at a real crossroads. Do we continue to place the vast majority of our hopes on conventional politics? Or do we really begin to engage in the necessary project of rebuilding a radical, even revolutionary left?

When the first humans moved out of Africa, they carried their gut microbes with them. Turns out, these microbes also evolved along with them.