The struggle over public education has ignited new modes of criticism that contain the potential to build a mass movement from the bottom up
Mainstream Politicians Switching Sides Under Trump’s Regime of Barbarism
Viewed largely as a liability, the institutions that young people inhabit have been discarded as citadels of critical thinking and social mobility
The corporate media has become a normalizing force for violence because they lack the courage to challenge the corporations that control them
Confronted with the rise of an authoritarian society affecting all institutions and individuals, there is a need for resistance based on radical…
Facing the challenge of fascism will not be easy, but Americans are marching, protesting and organizing in record-breaking numbers
Democracy on life support
Trump has propagated a culture of violence and cruelty that is as unchecked as it is poisonous and dangerous to human life and democracy itself
The American public needs a new understanding of how civic institutions collapse under the force of state violence
Trump has dispensed with the fiction of democracy because he believes that in the interest of power both people and the planet are disposable, excess to be plundered and discarded
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