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Prof. Nancy MacLean & Kimberlé Crenshaw

The Heritage Foundation’s Racist Origins and What That History Tells Us

by Nancy MacLean | Apr 30, 2024 | Education

What will the prescriptions in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 mean for parents, public schools, and multiracial democracy? The law professor and social critic Kimberlé W. Crenshaw interviewed historian Nancy MacLean recently at a “Homeroom” webinar of the Freedom to Learn Coalition, which plans a nationwide series of events on May 3. The following slightly […]

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New York NY/USA-July 3, 2019 Vehicles clog Tenth Avenue in New York as they attempt to enter the Lincoln Tunnel during the Great Fourth of July Getaway

Diary of a Transit Miracle

by Charles Komanoff | Apr 26, 2024 | Economy

A miracle is coming to New York City. Beginning on July 1, and barring a last-minute hitch, motorists will soon pay a hefty $15 to enter the southern half of Manhattan — the area bounded by the Hudson River, the East River and 60th Street. An anticipated 15 percent or so of drivers will switch […]

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Fascism is not Patriotism

by Mark Green | Apr 16, 2024 | Politics

April 19, 2025. WASHINGTON (AP)—At the direction of Donald Trump, forty-seventh president of the United States, Attorney General Ken Paxton yesterday sent teams of FBI agents to the residences of General Mark Milley, Eric Holder and Hillary Clinton. Knocking on their doors at precisely 9 a.m., the lead agents identically told each of their targets, […]

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Dancing in the Dark, Part 2: The Paradoxical Risk of Senate Filibuster Reform

by Mark Medish & Joel McCleary | Apr 1, 2024 | Election 2024

One reform proposal that many progressives curiously have in common with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is their call for an end to the Senate filibuster. The prospect of quicker passage, or any passage, of popular legislation is alluring for self-evident reasons. Yet in view of Trump’s aggressive plans for radical policy and […]

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Atlanta, GA USA - August 24, 2023: A man holds sign that says "Donald J. Trump did nothing wrong" alongside woman holding anti-Trump sign on August 24, 2023 in Atlanta, GA.

Hit ‘em Where It Hurts: Rachel Bitecofer on How to Stop Trump, MAGA — and Save Democracy

by Art Levine | Mar 15, 2024 | Election 2024

Despite a surprisingly good showing by many Democrats in 2022 and recent special elections — due in part to the backlash against the Supreme Court’s 2022 abortion ruling and extremist GOP candidates — there are good reasons to fear the very real possibility of a Trump victory in November. Just look at Trump’s lead in […]

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Bad Faith Documentary

Bad Faith

“A great and powerful and timely film” – Ken Burns

Critics are raving about BAD FAITH, the sensational expose of Christian Nationalism from directors Stephen Ujlaki and Chris Jones

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“One of the Ten Best Films of 2024”Variety

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