When ICE invaded the city of Minneapolis at the beginning of winter, they behaved as violently and as out of control as they had elsewhere in the country. When thousands of people marched in protest throughout the city, not even...
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In September 2025, federal troops and the National Guard were sent to Portland, Oregon. Instead of creating fear among the city’s residents, the population has responded with increasingly imaginative forms of resistance, including unicorns and frogs. Across the country, protesters...
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. In his opening remarks to the U.N. General Assembly, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres recalled growing up under the Salazar dictatorship in Portugal. When that regime was finally overturned...
Since 2016, @signsofjustice has been making t-shirts and posters that advocate for familiar progressive themes such as science, reproductive rights, and diversity. They have now designed a program of non-violent resistance called The Majority Project. It is a simple form...
Dr. Carla Hayden used to be the Librarian of Congress, the person in charge of the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Recently, conservative (MAGA) groups targeted Dr. Hayden in complaints to the president because they thought the Library of...
Harvard University has been besieged since the current administration took office. Billions of dollars in federal funding for research at Harvard have been frozen. They have been threatened with government interference in who they can hire and what they can...
The phrase “reverence for life” came to the famous Albert Schweitzer during his time in Africa as a medical missionary, where he built a hospital in a remote area to treat thousands of people who had had no access to...
My regional food bank became concerned that many residents of this area live in neighborhoods and rural communities that lie outside of the available options for transportation to and from food and other essentials of daily life. They worked with...
This morning, I saw a news story about race-based hair discrimination that got my tender heart for equality racing like a thoroughbred at the starting gate. Darryl George, an 18-year-old black student in a Houston area high school, has spent...