Q&A: ‘We’re winning when media reparations is common-sense’: Media 2070’s new chapter
In the midst of attacks on Black press and journalists, Media 2070 charts a tangible future for Black narrative power and media reparations.
Notes from a Burmese Prison
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Lobbyist Disclosure Failures Disadvantage Maryland Climate Advocates, According to Audit
As Maryland lawmakers weigh proposals aimed at reining in utility companies, lowering electricity prices and expanding the state’s low-carbon energy system, a new audit report has found that the lobbyists who want to influence those …
The Poetics of Malcolm X
On the poetry that influenced the Civil Rights trailblazer and the art he inspired.
Trump’s War on Iran Makes a Mockery of American Democracy
Late Friday night, Donald Trump announced the beginning of an open-ended war in Iran. In his rambling eight-minute speech, he rattled off a list of real and alleged Iranian crimes going back to the hostage crisis in 1979.
What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever
We heard from more than 40 current and former emergency managers in 11 states about what they need to prepare for the next disaster — and what they aren’t getting.
Facing Its Third Data Center, an Iowa County Rolls Out Extensive Zoning Rules
PALO, Iowa—There are two restaurants in Palo, not counting the chicken wings and pizza sold at the only gas station in town.
Elders are a powerhouse of the US pro-democracy movement
Today’s seniors are not sitting at home knitting sweaters for their grandkids — we are engaging in civil resistance with passion and determination in many meaningful ways.
What Solidarity Looks Like
A collaboration between the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago and Northwestern University is helping to save lives by honoring multiple forms of expertise.
Without Weighing Costs to Public Health, EPA Rolls Back Air Pollution Standards for Coal Plants
Last week, when the Environmental Protection Agency finalized its repeal of tightened 2024 air pollution standards for power plants, the agency claimed the rollback would save $670 million.
The Climate Won’t Bend To Trump’s Will To Power
Last week, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency rescinded a long-standing “endangerment” finding that determined greenhouse gas emissions were harmful to public health by accumulating in the biosphere and warming the planet. Former California Gov.
Building the Electrostate
In the United States today, officials at all levels of government generally act as if private enterprise is the only way to provide goods and services.
The True Infinite and the Republic of Virtue
Marxists have no trouble speaking about what they love. But they do need to learn how to listen: to themselves, and, more importantly, to the reply of their beloved.
US Media Mostly Care for Iranians When They Can Be Used to Justify Bombing
US corporate media tend to humanize Iranians only when they can be portrayed as victims of their own government.
Takaichi Whirlwind
When Sanae Takaichi took over as leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) last October, the party, which has dominated Japan’s postwar politics, was mired in one of its deepest crises.
The Quest For Clean Cargo
I. Copenhagen Despite its grey summer sky, the Copenhagen waterfront cut a picture of a utopian city, where the angular timber structures of harbor lidos abutted glass and steel office buildings.
Washington Post lays off race and ethnicity reporters
After cutting around one-third of staff, the Washington Post says it will concentrate on “areas that demonstrate authority” — with a national reporting desk that is now overwhelmingly white.