Standing Rock coming to next month’s Super Bowl. “We’re asking everyone, every organization out there that stands for human rights, civil rights, to stand with us at the Super Bowl to let the Trump organization know that Texas stands with Standing Rock.” — Sarahi Garcia, Houston Stands with Standing
George W. Bush ushered in an era covert mass surveillance, extraordinary renditions, and a highly secret drone-powered assassination program. Though pledging to break with the policies of his shadow-hugging predecessor,
Start preparing ground for a big-tent collaborative.
Jeremy David Bendik-Keymer, Case Western Reserve University
With the new administration beginning, many people might want to know how to resist it. The
Detail of Liza Donovan’s Women’s March poster. More available for free download at the Amplifier Foundation.
More than 600 marches are set to take place in 57 countries.
Here’s a unique way of organizing in resistance to the incoming administration.
Via Paige West and JC Salyer
In the wake of the 2016 US presidential election scholars across
EDITOR’S NOTE: In the late 1990’s, I started writing about social and environmental justice in West Texas. Sure, there were the livestock shows, balloon festivals, prison deaths, and
How did we just elect the most unqualified man to the presidency?
Donald Trump proved (again) this week that he is totally uninterested—or, worse, incapable of—representing all America.
Zuckerberg’s problem is more complicated than fake news
R. Kelly Garrett
In the wake of Donald Trump’s unexpected victory, many questions have been raised about Facebook’s role
How the international community is failing to protect the Rohingya people
Ashraful Azad
Via Open Democracy
At this moment, a genocide is happening in Myanmar of which most of the
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change:
How is it measured and what it means.
Ray Weymann/Central Coast Climate Science
It is frequently said that “97 percent of climate scientists
He was groomed from childhood to one day be a key leader in the white nationalist movement. Then, after being outed at his liberal arts college as a racist streaming-radio
Smooth-talking con artists are familiar figures in American folklore. The well-dressed hustler arrives in an unsuspecting town. He pitches some miracle cure or get-rich-quick scheme, door-to-door or from atop a
