Articles commenting on current events, issues, and persons from a progressive viewpoint.
This proposal is not bold, innovative, or courageous. It is a political maneuver designed to shift blame, fracture public trust and weaken an institution that still attempts to serve all children.
One of the biggest mistakes I’ve made this last decade and even more so in the last year is believing that listening to Trump voters — friends and family, but also strangers — would bring us to a mutual truth. That listening would make a difference. That I would learn from
Will we stand with the generations who expanded freedom through resistance and sacrifice — or surrender self-government to fear, force, and authoritarian power?
We ask Ken Wolf, retired historian and specialist in German history
Kentucky lawmakers need to focus on priorities for our citizens, not dangerous, unnecessary laws that pander to lawmakers' vanity and the president.
Publisher Bruce Maples asks a very simple question: Why has no one been arrested for the killings in Minneapolis?
Fast-tracking bills hurts democracy
Is there an overarching strategy behind all this?
And, of course, insults our allies once again in the process
Think not? Read the article, especially the definition
And definitely cannot see out of it – even as the rest of us know what our own two eyes have seen
Civic pressure is not disruption; it is how small communities protect themselves when the basics are at stake.
As we celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, let us not forget the partnership he saw, and forged, with organized labor
Forcing local law enforcement to work with ICE will make us all less safe
Violence in service of Trump is forgiven. Protest against Trump’s authority is unforgivable, even when it is peaceful.
