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Overpass Activism

Overpass Activism Overpass Activism

Visibility Brigade, Route 4, Paramus, NJ, July, 2025

Aug 6, 2025 / OppArt / Karen Guancione

The Cold and Forbidding Worlds of Cynthia Ozick

The Cold and Forbidding Worlds of Cynthia Ozick The Cold and Forbidding Worlds of Cynthia Ozick

In a new career-spanning collection of shorter fiction and nonfiction, the past often looms larger for Ozick than the present.

Aug 6, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Hannah Gold

An advertisement featuring actress Sydney Sweeney outside an American Eagle store in New York City, on August 4. American Eagle Outfitters Inc. shares surged after US President Donald Trump came out in support of a controversial ad from the company featuring actress Sydney Sweeney.

Why the Right Is So Giddy About Sydney Sweeney’s Blue Jeans Campaign Why the Right Is So Giddy About Sydney Sweeney’s Blue Jeans Campaign

At first, they wanted to claim progressives were delusional for seeing a slide back into white supremacy in the American Eagle ad. Now they’re boasting about it.

Aug 6, 2025 / Joan Walsh

A pedestal that once held a statue of Confederate Gen. Albert Pike sits near Judiciary Square on August 5, 2025, in Washington, DC.

Trump Wants to Make the Confederacy Great Again Trump Wants to Make the Confederacy Great Again

The president is making a big push to rewrite the past in favor of some of America's top historical traitors, racists, and scumbags.

Aug 6, 2025 / Chris Lehmann

Student workers and their supporters at Occidental College as they launch a union campaign to join SEIU Local 721 in 2024.

Under Trump, Student Labor Organizers Face New Challenges Under Trump, Student Labor Organizers Face New Challenges

Anticipating a rollback of recent NLRB precedent, some unions have withdrawn petitions for recognition, looking for other paths to continue their work.

Aug 6, 2025 / StudentNation / Lucy Tobier

Countering Authoritarian Takeover With the Labor Movement

Countering Authoritarian Takeover With the Labor Movement Countering Authoritarian Takeover With the Labor Movement

Alex Han of "In These Times" and Tarso Luís Ramos speak about the vital role of worker organizing in an age of growing authoritarianism.

Aug 5, 2025 / Q&A / Laura Flanders

Members of the Texas Department of Public Safety inside the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, on Monday, August 4, 2025. Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who left the state to block a controversial vote on new congressional maps.

Representative Democracy Will Live or Die In Texas Representative Democracy Will Live or Die In Texas

A gerrymandering fight reveals how far Trump will go to avoid electoral accountability.

Aug 5, 2025 / John Nichols

A group of resistance fighters at Lemvig Church. One of them has a Madsen machine gun over his shoulder.

The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We The Danes Resisted Fascism, and So Can We

Danish resistance didn’t arrive all at once during World War II. But taken as a whole, the Danes’ actions are a testament to what’s possible when we work together to fight fascism...

Aug 5, 2025 / Sarah Sophie Flicker

Red Flag!

Red Flag! Red Flag!

Trump undertow pulls the US under.

Aug 5, 2025 / OppArt / Kim DeMarco

The 2025 Doomsday Clock time is displayed after the time reveal held by The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at the United States Institute of Peace on January 28, 2025, in Washington, DC. The Doomsday Clock, currently the nearest it has been to midnight at 89 seconds, is a symbol for how close humanity is to a “global catastrophe.”

We Need to Stop the Nuclear Arms Race Before It Stops Us We Need to Stop the Nuclear Arms Race Before It Stops Us

There is a risk that the war of words between Moscow and DC could escalate.

Aug 5, 2025 / William D. Hartung

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