Disposable populations are no longer hidden in the shadows or relegated to the margins. They have been thrust into the harsh spotlight…
Watching the Rachel Maddow show this past Thursday evening stirred a whirlwind of emotions—admiration and anger, inspiration and despair. On the one…
All across the United States, people are rising up–refusing to be complicit in the slow-motion annihilation of democracy. They march against a…
Oligarchs, Billionaires And Reshaping The Economic-Political Landscape We’re living at a time of profound changes in the institutions that previously governed our…
Introduction The abduction of Mahmoud Khalil is not an isolated event—it is a chilling testament to the authoritarian turn in the United…
In an era defined by creeping fascism, neoliberal hegemony, and the complicity of higher education in suppressing dissent, Dr. Cornel West calls…
In episode five, we are pleased to welcome back Henry Giroux, scholar, cultural critic and author, most recently of The Burden of…
Neoliberalism has always been more than an economic project; it is a political and educational weapon designed to erode social solidarity and…
Amid the firestorm of democracy-destroying bombs Trump hurls at the institutions, values, and fragile promises of a wounded America, we must grasp…
In the initial days of his second term, President Donald Trump issued several executive orders “seeking to control how schools teach about…
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