In 1944, author Laura Z. Hobson agonized over whether or not to write a book about American Antisemitism. A letter from a friend push her forward to write what the New York Times described as "required reading," and quickly became a major motion picture.
As America is walks backward into what looks like a dark future. It’s sadly fitting that one of the best people in American politics died just before the presidency falls into the hands of one of the worst.
Tom Hyland was one of a virtual handful of people who could say they played a part in bringing a new democracy into the world, a man who had helped bring freedom and hope to a people who only a decade or two before had neither.
Every person who knows him says the same thing: that the Jimmy Carter who became the most powerful man in the world came home as the same Jimmy Carter who left. He led a life of service and integrity.
The normalization of the America-attacking Trump by our corporate media and the unhinged Republican Party has put our country in danger of becoming a fascist dictatorship subject to the whims of a criminal.
The late Florida former Governor and former Senator Bob Graham adored people. It didn’t matter who they were. That just begins the contrast between him and the rage-driven, paranoid bullies running the state today.
Yulia Navalnaya’s story fits squarely within a larger pattern of other female political leaders and activists who become publicly prominent after their husbands die or are imprisoned for their opposition to an authoritarian regime.
There can be little doubt that Trump would have despised someone like Master Sergeant Edmonds, who stood unflinching with a Nazi pistol aimed at his head and refused to hand over the Jews under his command.
The idea that Swifties might be a key demographic in future elections is not far-fetched given their location and age. A majority of Swift’s fans live in the suburbs, the swing territory of American politics.
Many complained when John Fetterman showed up for work in the Senate dressed in shorts and a hoodie. Yet he is the only Senator so far to call for the resignation of the indicted Bob Menendez.
The California Democrat accused Johnson & Johnson—makers of the $160,000-per-year leukemia drug Imbruvica—of floating a "flimsy legal theory" in a desperate attempt to protect their profiteering.
Sixty years ago tomorrow, Martin Luther King's most famous speech, "I Have a Dream," was not written in advance. He gave it off the cuff, in response to inspiration from Mahalia Jackson.
Tired of “playing nice,” Heather Ryan founded Bitches Get Stuff Done after Roe was overturned. She interrupted Ron DeSantis as he campaigned in Iowa over the weekend, and she wants to train more women to do the same.
With a few tears of a photo, Sinéad O’Connor beautifully embodied the holy ferocity of Jesus as he upended the agendas of those predators perverting religion for profit.
Yusef Salaam has gone from being falsely accused and convicted of rape and murder—with Trump calling for his execution—to exonerated and winning his primary for New York City Council.
