Night Owl
California poet Patrick Daly reflects on the reach, and limits, of the imagination, where nature, art and politics intertwine in often disturbing ways.
Trump Labor Department Plans To Gut More Than 60 Workplace Regulations
Truthout
The administration is planning to overhaul dozens of rules that protect workers from exploitation and wage theft.
Everyday People | Turnaround Arts & Playing for Change
Turnaround Arts infuses struggling schools with arts as a strategy for reform. Prominent artists and "everyday people" perform this timely song by Sly and the Family Stone.
Freedom Flotilla Sails To Break Israel’s “Engineered Famine”
Seven out of the 21 volunteers aboard the Handala are U.S. citizens, including our guest, the Palestinian American human rights attorney Huwaida Arraf.
Woman Defends Immigrants at Torrance Car Wash
The business owner and a bystander stepped in as uniformed officers walked into a car wash in Torrance, CA.
Trump Promises To Reduce Drug Prices 1,000%
Faced with a deepening Epstein crisis, Trump makes gobbledygook drug price promise and points to Obama.
Why Children Get so Many Vaccines
Children get a lot of shots in the first few years of life. Here’s why they get them and why they get them when they do.
The Icemen Cometh
Washington Spectator
Our democracy isn’t on autopilot. The machinery will not repair itself. Judges, executives, university presidents, media and tech leaders, donors, lawyers—those with some power—must join the work of defending the legal frameworks that protect us all.
How Zohran Mamdani Should Govern
The Nation
If Mamdani becomes mayor, he’ll have the chance to prove something few American socialists have ever gotten close enough to power to demonstrate: that progressive values aren’t just compatible with effective governance—they’re strengthened by it.
Science and Democracy Under Siege
Union of Concerned Scientists
From Jan. 20 to June 30, we documented 402 attacks on science–actions by an elected official or political appointee in a federal agency that results in the censoring, manipulation, forging, or misinforming on scientific data, results, or conclusions
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