While the president may celebrate April 2 as Liberation Day, markets may come to see it as the tipping point—when global confidence in the U.S. economy began to falter in earnest.

Human Rights & Justice

Trump Making English the Official US Language Can’t Erase Millions of Spanish Speakers

Trump is willing to use Spanish on the campaign trail when it benefits him while reinforcing a public narrative of rejecting Spanish and Spanish speakers.

Climate & Environment

Do Billionaires Think They Can Dodge the Effects of Climate Change?

Can we avoid the disaster of climate change? Can we reach a carbon-free future? Not as long as the richest among us continue to harbor delusions about their capacity to survive any catastrophe that might befall the rest of us.

Progress & Solutions

What You Can Do to Fight the Trump Agenda

If you're wondering what you can do, take heart. Here is a list of lists of how to resist the MAGA Trump agenda.

Opinions & Commentary

The Vital Importance of Non-Violence in Protests

Trump is looking for an excuse to invoke martial law and suspend the Constitution—you know the one he lied about defending in his Oath of Office. Don't give him one.

Fact Heroes

Be Like President Zelenskyy, Don’t Bow to the Bully Messiah

If there’s one truth about bullies, which President Zelenskyy reminded us of with precise clarity, it’s that they’re absolutely terrified of resistance.

Quick Facts

The 22nd Amendment: Why a Presidential Term Limit Was Added to the Constitution

The adoption of the 22nd Amendment had one purpose, "...the people be assured that we shall never have a dictator in this land.”

Racism (Us vs Them)

The American History That Trump, Vance and Hegseth Can Never Erase

Pete Hegseth has ordered the story of Medgar Evers and his grave site location be scrubbed from the Arlington website. The only thing this proves is that Pete Hegseth is a moral infant with a broken character.

Money Over People

We’re in the Final Act of America’s Third Backlash of the Oligarchs

Will Trump and Musk succeed in ending our democracy, replacing it with an autocratic “illiberal democracy” like in Hungary and Russia?

Larry's Observations

Becoming a Mensch Part 3—The Mensch as Humanitarian: Choosing People Over Politics

The Mensch moves toward problems that others move away from. When disaster strikes, they're often the first in and the last out, without cameras rolling or donations being counted.