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Op-Ed
Focusing on “Learning Loss” Obscures How Much We’ve Truly Lost in the Pandemic
The pandemic’s deaths have been un-dealt with most profoundly by prioritizing saving the economy rather than lives.
Parent Participation in Climate Justice Efforts Is on the Rise
Across the globe, parents are organizing for climate justice to protect their children's futures.
We Need a New Language of Resistance Amid Far Right’s Calls for Civil War
The left must accentuate and embrace a language that is forward-looking and offers the possibility for real change.
Idaho Abortion Ban Gives More Rights to Rapist’s Family Than the Pregnant Victim
A state law allows the family of a rapist to sue anyone who participated in aborting a fetus generated by the rape.
What Can We Expect From Biden’s Speech on the Rise of Fascism Among Republicans?
There is nothing “semi” about the old-school fascism being peddled by Trump from his island of misfit toys in Florida.
Alabama Hides the Horrors of Its Executions by Classifying Them as Homicides
The recent state-sanctioned murder of Joe James may be the longest execution in U.S. history, but it's not an outlier.
An Enron-Inspired Law May Be a Sharper Legal Threat to Trump Than Espionage Act
Bush walked away scot-free with a nimbus of high crimes wreathed around him, and Trump may very well do the same.
Our Voting Rights Are at Stake in Upcoming Supreme Court Ruling
The court’s ruling in “Moore v. Harper” will shape whether multiracial democracy has a future in the United States.
When We Rose to Fight COVID, We Were Deliberately Turned Against Each Other
There was a time when we came together to fight COVID, but that energy threatened the status quo more than the virus.
The Inflation Reduction Act Is a Disappointing Act of Federal Greenwashing
The Inflation Reduction Act approaches clean energy with the same extractive model beloved by the fossil fuel industry.