A Progress 2025 Vision for Health Care
Instead of gutting Medicare and Medicaid, as Project 2025 envisions, here's what a holistic, collective approach to health care would look like.
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Progress 2025: A Vision for LGBTQ Rights
The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 has promised a dystopian vision for LGBTQ rights. Its ideas are consistent with authoritarian, Christian nationalist, and white supremacist objectives. It aims to criminalize the existence
YES! Magazine Explores “The Truth Above All Else”
YES! Executive Editor Evette Dionne previews the latest issue of YES! Magazine, themed around "truth."
Meet the Librarian Battling Book Bans
Librarian Amanda Jones refused to stay silent in the face of vicious attacks by a right-wing book-banning campaign. She tells all in a new book.
Can the Next President Solve the Housing Crisis?
A housing rights organizer analyzes the solutions being proposed this election year to address the high cost of home buying and renting.
Workers Challenge Mega Grocery Merger
The Biden administration has sued to stop the largest grocery merger in the nation’s history, between Kroger and Albertsons.
Voters Behind Bars
Incarcerated Americans aren’t allowed to vote. Those with felonies also face barriers. Here’s what that means for democracy.
Disrupting the DNC for Palestine
Breaking the DNC blackout on Gaza, Codepink's Jodie Evans joined other activists working to keep Palestinians on the Democratic Party’s radar.
adrienne maree brown’s “Loving Corrections” to Build Collective Power
Best-selling author adrienne maree brown’s new book offers tools to navigate the difficult conversations and dynamics of organizing and belonging.
What’s Next for Bangladesh’s Student-Led Revolution?
A Bangladesh-born labor explores the South Asian nation’s prospects to transition to a stable democracy now that the dust has settled from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s ouster.
Rewriting Fantasy Tropes on Race and Economy
Young adult author Jordan Ifueko has created new worlds with her best-selling series Raybearer, centering Black characters and workers.
Instead of Ending Taxes on Tips, Pay a Living Wage
Taxes on tipped wages have now become a campaign issue. But economic equality advocates say ending sub-minumum wages would help workers more.
Torture Inside a Secret Israeli Concentration Camp
Video now circulating in Israeli media corroborates allegations from Palestinian detainees that Israeli agents at Sde Teiman detention center rape and torture prisoners.
USDA Will Compensate Black Farmers for Discrimination
The National Black Farmers Association just won a historic $2.2 billion in reparations from the U.S. government.
Setting a Black Economic Agenda
After conducting the largest-ever survey of Black Americans, Black to the Future has released a detailed Black economic agenda.
Lessons from Ferguson, 10 Years Later
The Ferguson uprising ignited a national reckoning about racist policing. Missouri State Sen. Brian Williams, who grew up in Ferguson, reflects on the progress made and challenges remaining.
What Is (and Is Not) Political Violence?
Violence against communities of color has always been political, but American elites have avoided that framing, says NDN Collective’s Janene Yazzie.
Youth Take J.D. Vance to Task on Climate
Community organizers with the Sunrise Movement explain why they protested outside the GOP Vice Presidential hopeful’s office.
Sonya Massey Should Still Be Alive, Say Activists
Sonya Massey's killing is a reminder that police do not keep Black women, nor Black disabled people, safe, says activist Cat Brooks.
Why Gen Z Loves “The Parable of the Sower”
Youth reporter Aina Marzia explains why Octavia Butler’s 1993 dystopian novel strikes a chord among her generation.
Prevention, Not Prisons
Dortell Williams, who has spent more than 30 years in prison, reflects on the true causes of crime.
What Kamala Harris’ Candidacy Means
The Vice President becomes the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee in a game-changing political moment.
Understanding Project 2025’s Threat to Democracy
The Heritage Foundation has a plan to rewrite the rules of government under a second Trump term, and they’ve helpfully laid it all out for public viewing.
“Political Violence” From the RNC to Gaza
The RNC’s idea of “Making America Safe Again” is centered on policing and harsh anti-immigrant detention, not on gun violence.
Protecting Workers in a Warming Climate
At a time of extreme heat, a new proposed OSHA rule could protect millions of American workers from heat-related stresses and even fatalities.
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