Karen Baynes-Dunning: Dr. King’s words inspire us to act
January 20, 2020 - Nearly 52 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “The Other America” speech in a high school gym...
Jeremy Venook and Max Bergmann: Impeachment Trial Witnesses: Who the Senate Should Call and...
January 15, 2020 -President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are engaged in a cover-up by trying to prevent...
Frank Sharry: Trump's Big Lie: “Catch and Release” is the Falsehood Used to Justify...
Jan. 10, 2020 - Yesterday, we highlighted how the independent and highly-reputable TRAC (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse) released a new report based...
Robert Reich: Four Reasons Why Millennials Don’t Have Any Money (VIDEO)
January 13, 2020 - The same forces that are driving massive inequality between the top 1 percent and the rest of us...
National Security Action: Narrowly Avoiding Needless War — For Now — Is Not a...
WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. 8, 2020 -- President Trump’s reckless approach has created a dangerous reality in which the best case scenario is...
Douglas Rivlin: Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Crusade Expands to Ensnare More and More American Citizens
January 7, 2020 - The Trump Administration’s relentless efforts to scapegoat, scare, and both keep out and kick out immigrants includes a...
Lawrence Wittner: A Historian Reflects on the Return of Fascism
Dr. Lawrence Wittner (https://www.lawrenceswittner.com/) is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press).
National Security Action: A Dangerous Escalation
January 6, 2020 - No American should shed any tears for Qasem Soleimani, but the question isn’t whether he deserved to be...
Senator Jeff Merkley: Trump and Pompeo are either dangerously inept or colossally ignorant
WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. 6, 2020 – Oregon’s Senator Jeff Merkley released the following statement regarding the spiraling national security concerns stemming from...
Klaus W. Larres: With the US and Iran on the brink of war, the...
Klaus W. Larres, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill January 5, 2020 - President Donald Trump’s policy toward Iran is in deep...
ACLU: Congress has not authorized war or hostilities against Iran
NEW YORK, Jan. 3, 2020 — In response to a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad that killed a top Iranian military commander and...
Robert Weissman: Term Extension for Pro-Drilling Interior Department Official Shows Normalization of Radical Views
Jan. 2, 2020 - Note: Today, President Donald Trump extended the term of the director of the Bureau of Land Management William...
National Security Action: “America First” Rings Hollow
WASHINGTON, D.C. Jan. 2, 2020 - President Trump starts the new year facing twin foreign policy crises largely of his own making. The...
Robert Reich: Why I'm Still Hopeful About America (VIDEO)
Dec. 31, 2019 - Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich explains why he still has hope for the future, even in these...
Claudia Moscovici: Why Holocaust Education Is So Important Today
Dec. 30, 2019 - Claudia Moscovici is the author of Holocaust Memories: A Survey of Holocaust Memoirs, Novels, Histories and Films.
The Leadership Conference Condemns Growing Number of Attacks on Faith Communities
WASHINGTON December 30, 2019 - Ashley Allison, executive vice president of campaigns and programs at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human...
John A. Tures: Death By Anti-Vaxxer Propaganda
December 30, 2019 - This past semester, we had a first-year student class where we focused on the book Educated by Tara...
John A. Tures: Just A Toy This Christmas Season
December 20, 2019 - Have any of you ever seen the Disney movie “Toy Story?” There is a great story in there,...
Dan Farber: The Decade in Review
December 19, 2019 - “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.” That pretty much sums up...
American Constitution Society: A truncated and rushed Senate trial would be an affront to...
Washington, D.C. Dec. 18, 2019 — The House today voted to impeach President Donald Trump, citing his abuse of power in the...