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Riffing on an ancient myth, poet Alan Dugan finds a lesson applicable to our current predicament.

While most Americans instinctively understand the threat U.S. militarism poses to democracy, the times call for more explicit links between militarism and rising fascism and a blueprint for reversing this threat.

As Donald Trump crossed a dangerous line at Fort Bragg, the brass failed to speak out in the Army’s defense. He led soldiers in a display of behavior that ran contrary to everything the founder of the U.S. Army strove to imbue in the armed forces.

ICE’s primary targets under Trump: non-citizens involved in protests against Israel’s war on Gaza and non-citizens who are Hispanic or Latino. ICE is also targeting immigrants of other ethnic backgrounds...who inflame the racist American imagination.

The White House took a step last week that significantly undercuts the idea that federal employment should be nonpartisan. No modern presidential administration has undertaken such an effort to staff the entire government with political loyalists.

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While we may be living in a very different world politically, the work of our union has not changed. The last three months have underscored the importance of solidarity and having strong unions in our communities.

Step by Step, MAGA Is normalizing repression and setting America up for tyranny. Will we wait, like so many before us, until the knock comes to our own door?

The Georgia megachurch leader called for a #TargetFast over its DEI rollback. Now Dollar General is next, he says, as consumers mobilize against Trump’s policies

The folk singer and social activist on the reasons protesting has gotten “dangerous,” why it’s essential to still show up, and what she felt seeing A Complete Unknown for the first time