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The Public Intellectual
Progressive academics address important social issues.
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![A Make America Great Again hat engulfed in flames burns on the ground at Copley Square in Boston on October 18, 2020.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/11/2022_1104-maga-hat-burn-400x300.jpg)
The 2022 Midterms Are a Referendum on the Future of Democracy in the US
The coming election will show whether the mass of voters in the U.S. support democracy or fascism.
![Armed members of the New England Minutemen militia group watch rally goers march with Trump flags, during the anti-mask and anti-vaccine "World Wide Rally for Freedom" at the statehouse in Concord, New Hampshire, on May 15, 2021.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/09/2022_0901-militia-march-400x300.jpg)
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.
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The US Is Descending Into a Crisis of Overt Fascism. There’s Still a Way Out.
The right is seeking to steal elections and deputizing vigilantes to constrain our rights. U.S. democracy is in peril.
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To End Mass Shootings, We Need to Change the Deeper Structure of Life in the US
Resistance is the only option, and it has to be educational, structural, bold and disruptive.
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Nonstop Corporate News on Ukraine Is Fueling Support for Unchecked US Militarism
The shock of war has been increasingly transformed into a cinematic spectacle used to fan the flames of militarism.
![Protestors and supporters set up at a blockade at the foot of the Ambassador Bridge, sealing off the flow of commercial traffic over the bridge into Canada from Detroit, on February 10, 2022, in Windsor, Canada.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/02/GettyImages-1238360620-400x300.jpg)
Convoy Movement Isn’t a Struggle Over Freedom, It’s an Attempt to Kill Democracy
Anti-democratic forces like the trucker convoy are subverting the idea of freedom in service of right-wing extremism.
![On the one year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, people march past the Department of Justice as Indivisible SF and Indivisible East Bay hold a vigil and march in San Francisco, California, on January 6, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2022/01/2022_0114-vote-protest-400x300.jpg)
We Can’t Let Radical Hope Disappear Into the Abyss of Authoritarianism
We must construct a new language of hope that allows us to imagine a future in which democracy can breathe.
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Amid Apocalyptic Cynicism, Let’s Embrace Radical Hope in the New Year
The new year should be rooted in dreams that reject a vision of the future as simply a continuation of the present.
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GOP’s Banning of Books and Attack on Teachers Expose the Party’s Rising Fascism
The Republican Party makes clear that educational practices that inform and liberate are a threat to its politics.
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Jim Crow Politics Have Descended on Education
For the GOP, higher education is now a battleground for conducting a race war waged in the spirit of the Confederacy.