A New Trial By Fire for Republican Extremism
Maribel Hastings and David Torres The Republican “border security” plan stalled in the House of Representatives is so extreme that even some members of that party have lamented…
Gas Stoves: The Fracking Tailpipe in Your Kitchen
Sandra Steingraber This is an essay about the long-standing evidence that gas stoves harm children and why so many of us persist in liking them anyway. But it…
A Lesson for America 90 Years After Hitler’s Ascension to Power
Werner Lange January 30 this year marks the 90th anniversary of the corporate-facilitated appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor of a deeply divided Germany. There is an alarming…
Walks With Wolves
Sean Seary My love for the outdoors is tied, inherently, to my childhood: growing up in the greater New York metropolitan area, I spent a lot of time…
Fifty Years Later, Our Lives Still at Risk
Laura Packard Fifty years ago, a very different U.S. Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade. Radical right-wing extremists control the Supreme Court and serve in elective office….
Democracy Is on the Line in Peru
Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno With all eyes on the fight for democratic government in Brazil, with its obvious parallels to events in the United States, it’s easy to miss…
Why School Choice Is Important To My Family
Anabell Hernández My son Matthew is my only child, and his education is very important to me. This is why I am an advocate for school choice. …
Helping Students Sort Fact from Fiction
Olivia Alperstein I was delighted to learn that New Jersey has become the first state in the country to require public schools to teach media literacy to K-12…
Theocrats in the Colorado Capitol
Quentin Young Not two hours into the opening of the Colorado General Assembly last week, a group of Republican lawmakers made it clear that they’re at the Capitol…
New Year, Same Immigration Problems
Maribel Hastings and David Torres The New Year has arrived with the same old problems. Undocumented immigrants already rooted in this country for decades, and those who arrive…