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The Cloud, Platforms, and Search Engines Are Public-Interest Institutions

Cecilia Rikap interviewed by Kirsten Van Gestel and Klara Ledroit transform! europe
Big Tech has amassed extraordinary power and now exerts control over the entire economy. Europe can no longer afford to remain captive to Big Tech networks. The solution lies in building an alternative digital ecosystem.

GOP School Censorship 2.0

Timothy Messer-Kruse CounterPunch
How the MAGA Crusade Against Critical Race Theory has Become a Movement Against Knowledge Itself

Repression in the Classroom

Paul Buhle Monthly Review
Repression on campus is back in a big way, as readers far beyond the classroom know today. The saga of the Cold War years, once seemingly distant, now has lessons that we ignore to our peril.

Trump’s Takeover of Education Is Taking a Page From the Confederacy

Layla A. Jones Talking Points Memo
By partnering with right-wing groups, Trump and his allies are exercising control over the retelling of history in hopes of shaping the political opinions of the youngest Americans, threatens to propagandize public education for generations to come.

How Education Changed in One Year Under Trump

Nirvi Shah The Hechinger Report
It was almost impossible for the average observer to keep track of the array of changes across colleges and universities, K-12 schools, early education and education research. This is a look at how the education world was transformed.

How Politics Is Changing the Way History Is Taught

Dana Goldstein The New York Times
History lessons are being wiped from the internet, California is retreating from ethnic studies, as education swings away from curriculums that are seen as too progressive. School curriculum had been restricted before, notably during the Red Scares
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