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Don’t Speak Now, Hold Your Peace: The Quiet Power of Retribution
“I don’t think there’s been a time in my life where people were more openly afraid to express themselves.” Jimmy Hatch, a former Navy SEAL, reflects. “It breaks my heart.”
The Costs of Control: Reproductive Health in Trump’s America
On June 24th, 2022, the United States Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in favor of a Mississippi state health officer. With the decision of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, decades of constitutional protection for abortion rights vanished.
When Lies Go Viral: Meta’s Retreat From Fact-Checking
In 2012, Meta’s algorithm pushed hate speech that fueled the massacre of the Rohingya people in Myanmar. This content, including a widely shared video from prominent anti-Rohingya figure U Wirathu, inflamed discrimination and animosity against the already marginalized group.
The Cross at a Crossroads: Christianity’s Reckoning in Modern America
Ryan Burge spent decades at the pulpit of a church that had been standing since 1868. By 2025, it was gone.
Sound It Out: How Phonics Won America’s Reading Wars
Adrienne Gear’s early days as a teacher brought an unforeseen challenge: despite her dedication, she was failing in her most critical responsibility—teaching her young students to read.
Latino History in Washington: The Push for the National Museum of the American Latino
Hinojosa feels that the negative reaction to ¡Presente! had more to do with politics than the content of the exhibit: “I think what was really frustrating is that you had a lot of people with zero experience that were not very qualified to make these kinds of assessments, basing their assessments based strictly on the political climate that we’re currently in.”
An American Civic Renaissance: Inside the Fight to Revive the Democratic Party
When polls closed at 9:00 PM on November 5th, 2024, there was hope in New York City’s suburbs. Former Congressman Mondaire Jones (D-NY17), a progressive reformer, had run to retake the seat he occupied from 2021 to 2023. The race…
Ignore At Your Own Risk: Can “Red Flag” Laws Shift America’s Gun Violence Prevention Debate?
Perpetrators of gun violence often signal their intent to do so before it happens. “That leakage—and all those instances of someone saying ‘I’m going to kill myself,’ or ‘I’m going to kill people at a school or church or synagogue’…