Activism

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Trump’s Net Neutrality-Hating FCC Chair Is Already Gutting Public-Interest Regulations Trump’s Net Neutrality-Hating FCC Chair Is Already Gutting Public-Interest Regulations

But movements can counter him.

Mar 2, 2017 / John Nichols

Students

How Do We Find Hope Under Trump? How Do We Find Hope Under Trump?

We must assert, each and every day, that we are not living in normal times.

Mar 1, 2017 / StudentNation / Leehi Yona

Protesters at Women's March

How You Can Join the International Women’s Strike on March 8 How You Can Join the International Women’s Strike on March 8

Strike, march, plug into local campaigns, or find your own way of getting involved.

Mar 1, 2017 / NationAction

Demonstration supporting refugees

Has Spain’s Podemos Party Squandered Its Prospects? Has Spain’s Podemos Party Squandered Its Prospects?

While the Madrid-based leadership has been mired in factional infighting, regional representatives and allies offer inspiring alternatives.

Mar 1, 2017 / Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín

Q&A: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Liberation and the Women’s Strike

Q&A: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Liberation and the Women’s Strike Q&A: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Black Liberation and the Women’s Strike

Her new book, From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation, has become essential reading for 2017.

Mar 1, 2017 / Q&A / Sarah Leonard

Progressives Need to Build Their Own Media

Progressives Need to Build Their Own Media Progressives Need to Build Their Own Media

Trump would not be president today were it not for the help of Fox, Breitbart, Limbaugh, & Co.

Mar 1, 2017 / Feature / Mark Hertsgaard

Why I’m Bringing DREAMer Lupe Salermón to Trump’s Speech Tonight

Why I’m Bringing DREAMer Lupe Salermón to Trump’s Speech Tonight Why I’m Bringing DREAMer Lupe Salermón to Trump’s Speech Tonight

DACA recipients like Lupe are bravely speaking out at a moment when many are telling them to lie low.

Feb 28, 2017 / Rep. Mark Pocan

Trump’s Machismo vs. Sweden’s ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’

Trump’s Machismo vs. Sweden’s ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’ Trump’s Machismo vs. Sweden’s ‘Feminist Foreign Policy’

Investing in women and girls does much more to keep us safe and promote peace than does spending even greater amounts on weapons designed to cause mass devastation.

Feb 28, 2017 / Katrina vanden Heuvel

I am not a criminal

Democrats Are Bringing DREAMers, Muslims, and Activists to Trump’s First Speech Before Congress Democrats Are Bringing DREAMers, Muslims, and Activists to Trump’s First Speech Before Congress

Disability-rights advocates and a doctor who treated victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting will also be in attendance.

Feb 27, 2017 / John Nichols

Texas voter ID

Trump’s Justice Department Is No Longer Opposing Texas’s Discriminatory Voter-ID Law Trump’s Justice Department Is No Longer Opposing Texas’s Discriminatory Voter-ID Law

Jeff Sessions reverses the Obama administration’s position in a crucial voting-rights case.

Feb 27, 2017 / Ari Berman

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