JAMIE HARRISON – Today we mark the passing of Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. — a towering figure in American life, a giant in the Civil Rights Movement, and one of the most consequential architects of modern Democratic Party politics.
The Actual Gavin Newsom Is Much Worse Than You Think
NORMAN SOLOMON – For anyone who wants a truly progressive Democratic Party, Gavin Newsom is bad news.
Gen Z Divorces Maga
ETHAN LIEBERMAN – Gen Z males elected Trump. He swept the group by 14 percentage points. This was just four years after Biden won that demographic by 25 points, an unheard-of swing. And now, says Lieberman, they are swinging away from Trump in huge numbers. But that’s not, explains our mole in Gen Z world, a swing to Democrats.
Where Is Your Line? Which Side Are You On? (Hint: Silence Is a Decision)
ROB OKUN – What has to happen before you actively push back at a government transforming into authoritarian state before our eyes? Will you show up? Will you raise your voice? Will you find a place in the growing resistance movement?
The Last Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Agreement Has Expired. What Now?
By Winslow Myers In his dense and challenging lectures gathered into a book called “The Courage To Be,” the late theologian Paul Tillich sorted our modern anxieties into three existential buckets: first, the anxiety of fate and death, experienced as dread; second,…
Arresting the witness – Don Lemon, the DOJ, and the chilling of press freedom
GEORGE CASSIDY PAYNE – If journalists can be arrested for documenting protest inside a church, the precedent will not remain confined to sacred spaces. It will travel—to campuses, courtrooms, town halls, and streets—wherever institutions demand insulation from scrutiny. A democracy that punishes witnessing does not preserve order. It preserves power, by erasing those who dare to look.