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January 12, 2024

Trumpism Is Devouring the Evangelical Movement

Michelle Goldberg The New York Times

There’s not going to be a post-Trump religious right — at least, not anytime soon. Evangelical leaders who started with Trump on a transactional basis, then grew giddy with their proximity to power, have now seen MAGA devour their movement whole.

Inshallah a Boy | Movie

January 12, 2024

A widow pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws

Something Weird Happens When You Keep Squeezing

January 12, 2024

Under extreme pressures, matter defies the rules of physics as we know it.

Trump: A President Can Assassinate Rivals

January 12, 2024

Trump’s lawyer claims that presidential immunity covers having rivals assassinated; why RFK, Jr. dropped out of his own birthday gala

Radical | Movie

January 12, 2024

In a Mexican border town, a frustrated teacher tries a radical new method to break through to his students. Based on a true story. In theaters.

Trump Issues Most Chilling Claim Yet

January 12, 2024

Trump's claim to be immune from prosecution for any act as president would make him not a president, but a dictator

January 12, 2024

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Trump Issues Most Chilling Claim Yet. Radical | Movie. Trump: A President Can Assassinate Rivals. Something Weird Happens When You Keep Squeezing. Inshallah a Boy | Movie.

January 11, 2024

Answering the Call: Strategy and Power-Building From the Bottom Up

James Mumm Reviews 4 Radicals

The role of strategy in making social movements and organizations more effective, and who creates it, are the urgent questions four authors explore in three new books. Their answers will surprise you, as they surprised me.

January 11, 2024

Serving Justice: The Fight To Eliminate the Tipped Minimum Wage

Mariama Sidime The Progressive

Subminimum wages reinforce the notion that food service is not serious labor and that payment for that work should be conditional.

January 11, 2024

Tidbits – Jan. 11, 2024 – Reader Comments: Enough IS Enough!; Seizing Russia’s Frozen Assets – Readers Ask: What About Israel?; Supreme Ballot; Chicken Soup; Forums: What Should Progressives Do About Biden?; Protect the Squad & Block the Right;

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Reader Comments: Enough IS Enough!; Seizing Russia’s Frozen Assets - Readers Ask: What About Israel?; Supreme Ballot; Texas Abortion Law; Chicken Soup; Forum: What Should Progressives Do About Biden?; Protect the Squad & Block the Right in 2024; more