3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (489+ words) State officials weigh a new federal school voucher program that is ripe for profiteering and discrimination. The Education Law Center cites estimates that the federal program will cost between $5 and $51 billion this coming year, depending on state participation. Professor Martin…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (357+ words) Every billionaire-owned media outlet is a profound threat to our democracy. Even during the best of times, media corporations often maximize profits by ruthlessly cutting corners and forcing their media workers to do more for less. Too often, costly services…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (580+ words) We cannot extract our way to a better future. Sharing and caring for the Earth is the only sane and healthy path forward. On a recent summer weekend, I found myself behind the wheel of a self-driving electric car, riding…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (855+ words) Paréa Lesbos, a community center for migrants and asylum seekers on the Greek coast, is a scenic refuge for those who have faced violence and chaos. by Giacomo Sini, Dario Antonelli Mohamed Ayash, a Palestinian migrant from Gaza who lives…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1002+ words) Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis Facebook Modern day unsolved deaths bear the hallmarks of nineteenth and twentieth century lynchings. Content warning: This article contains mentions of suicide. If I am ever found hanging from a tree, it was not…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (369+ words) by Zach D. Roberts Attendees at the March on Washington were not able to sit alongside the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool amid repairs caused by Trump’s renovation debacle. Last weekend, on the sixty-third anniversary of the March on Washington, thousands gathered…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (234+ words) The political reality is that she cannot plausibly do both. I can’t get excited, as some disabled folks seem to be, about Darline Graham, Republican of South Carolina, joining the United States Senate. She was likely referring to her work…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (84+ words) Jason Gooljar (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Over the past quarter century, Wall Street interests, technology industry and university elites, and anonymous donors have all gained strong footholds in our party’s power structure. Farrar, Straus and Giroux Voters chose Trump because they wanted…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (81+ words) Settler violence has unquestionably intensified since the last time I was in the West Bank a year and a half ago. So has activism and resistance. An American-Israeli activist confronts soldiers in Umm Al Kheir. Children's toys burned during an…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (392+ words) Wisconsin is a prime example of how federal pressure is pushing diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in higher education to the brink. UW–Milwaukee’s cultural centers, including the Roberto Hernández Center which was founded in 1970 to serve the Latine community,…...