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
Can we find the language — and build a movement — to break out of our nation’s culture of cruelty?
A deep-rooted crisis in education, and a long cultural and political decline, is what got us here. There’s hope
Shutting Down American-Style Authoritarianism
Trump’s election… confirms that the dark and haunting possibilities of authoritarianism are upon us, and have made way for a more extreme and totalitarian form of late capitalism
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