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This is not the end. This is just the beginning. Together, when we stand united, we will create the kind of nation that you and I know we can become. A nation devoted to freedom, justice and democracy.

‘Indecency has become a new hallmark.’ In a new essay collection, the dean of Columbia University’s graduate school of journalism makes a compelling argument that everything is connected and nothing is inevitable about racial justice or democracy.

DuPont Has DDT to Sell, So Watch Out! (1945), Women Want the Vote, Men Say No Way (1915), Icelandic Women Go on Strike Against Gender Discrimination (1975), Big Tobacco Kills, and Keeps on Killing (1940), Happy Birthday, Mike Doonesbury! (1970)

People from across the country marched. Now what?

By signing the “Real Food, Healthy Kids Act” into law, California Gov. Gavin Newsom has taken control of a growing movement to reform the nation’s food supply. The state legislature passed the bill in mid-September.

Today, it is an understatement to say that mainstream U.S. society is sick with what Lenny called “false values.” Tip-of-the-iceberg evidence of how a sick U.S. society has gotten sicker? In 2024, an in-your-face scumbag bully was elected president.

If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.

Conservation biologists propose a daunting task: protecting Earth’s diversity of bacteria and other microbes.

What we can learn from the life of Uruguay’s former guerrilla and leftist president Pepe Mujica.

Richard Beck’s Homeland charts how four presidential administrations managed to evade moral responsibility for the “war on terror” by hiding behind legality and process.