Factchecking Won’t Save Democracy Factchecking Won’t Save Democracy
On this episode of The Time of Monsters, a talk about the rise of anti-system politics.
Healing USA Healing USA
Honoring BIPOC should be as American as Thanksgiving.
Nov 29, 2024 / OppArt / Airco Caravan
25 Years Ago, the Battle of Seattle Showed Us What Democracy Looks Like 25 Years Ago, the Battle of Seattle Showed Us What Democracy Looks Like
The protests against the WTO Conference in 1999 were short-lived. But their legacy has reverberated through American political life ever since.
Nov 29, 2024 / Colette Shade
“We Never Assumed Anything”: A Lifetime of Providing Abortion Care “We Never Assumed Anything”: A Lifetime of Providing Abortion Care
In their new book We Choose To, Dr. Curtis Boyd and Glenna Halvorson-Boyd reflect on their decades helping women who needed abortions—before, during, and after Roe.
Nov 29, 2024 / Regina Mahone
The Exiled Palestinian Poet Fighting Censorship in Democracies The Exiled Palestinian Poet Fighting Censorship in Democracies
Ghayath Almadhoun had a poetry event in Berlin canceled simply because he’s Palestinian. At least 200 more artists have been silenced over Palestine in Germany since.
Nov 29, 2024 / Ghayath Almadhoun
The Democrats Will Keep Losing Until They Solve Their Plutocracy Problem The Democrats Will Keep Losing Until They Solve Their Plutocracy Problem
The party’s habitual deference to big donors makes it impossible to effectively oppose Trumpism.
A 150-Year Critique of the Electoral College A 150-Year Critique of the Electoral College
As far back as the 1870s, The Nation opposed the existence of the Electoral College as "so grotesque as to be almost ludicrous.”
Nov 28, 2024 / Richard Kreitner
Nuclear Won’t Meet Tech’s Energy Demands Nuclear Won’t Meet Tech’s Energy Demands
Podcast / Tech Won’t Save Us / Nov 28, 2024 Nuclear Won’t Meet Tech’s Energy Demands On this episode of Tech Won’t Save Us, M.V. Ramana on the tech industry’s pus…
Nov 28, 2024 / Podcast
Biden Should Use His Pardon Power for More Than Just Turkeys Biden Should Use His Pardon Power for More Than Just Turkeys
More than 65 members of Congress have asked Biden to use his clemency power to “address long-standing injustices in our legal system.”
Nov 28, 2024 / John Nichols
The Democrats Disregarded Poor and Low-Income Voters—to Their Peril The Democrats Disregarded Poor and Low-Income Voters—to Their Peril
Poverty is clearly anything but a marginal experience—and yet, as in the last election, it’s repeatedly minimalized and dismissed in our nation’s politics.
Nov 27, 2024 / Shailly Gupta Barnes and Rev. Dr. Liz Theoharis