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  1. The Spectacle of Illiteracy and the Crisis of Democracy
    11 Nov 2013 … This is an excerpt from Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, by Henry Giroux. C. Wright Mills argued 50 years ago that one important measure of the demise of vibrant democracy and the corresponding impoverishment of Continue reading
  2. Anxious in the Trump Era? You’re Not Alone President Donald Trump stands outside the West Wing of the White House as Klaus Iohannis, Romania's president, not pictured, arrives on Friday, June 9, 2017. (Photo by Pete Marovich/Bloomberg via Getty Images
    9 Sep 2017 … It’s no surprise that our office phone at the Center for Anxiety has been ringing off the hook since January 2017. From immigration and health care concerns to white supremacy — and let’s not forget the threat of nuclear war Continue reading
  3. The Get-Off-My-Lawn Party Meets in Cleveland Delegates from Washington State dance during the Republican National Convention in Cleveland on July 19, 2016. (Photo by Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    7 Jul 2016 … Oh dear. Watching C-SPAN and waiting for Tuesday’s roll call confirming Donald Trump’s nomination to begin, the house band there in the hall, led by GE Smith, formerly of Saturday Night Live, played covers of The Temptations’ “I Can’t Get Continue reading
  4. This Small Town’s History Shows Why the TPP Could Be a Disaster for US Workers Galesburg residents saw their jobs disappear after the passage of NAFTA. The Trans-Pacific Partnership won't be any different. (tfooq / Flickr)
    6 Jun 2015 … Galesburg, IL residents saw their jobs disappear after the passage of NAFTA. The Trans-Pacific Partnership won't be any different Continue reading
  5. Not Your Grandma’s Civil Rights Strategy On March 8, 2015, Marchers retraced the steps of those who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 50 years before over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. (Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/,em>The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
    3 Mar 2017 … On a glorious afternoon in August 1963, after the massive March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom wrapped up on the national mall, President John F. Kennedy, prodded by Attorney General Robert Kennedy, welcomed John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Continue reading
  6. Resignation Letter from US Foreign Service Officer Matthew P. Hoh
    10 Oct 2014 … "I fail to see the value or the worth in continued US casualties or expenditures of resources in support of the Afghan government in what is, truly, a 35-year old civil war." Continue reading
  7. We Are Out of Time: We Need to Take a Leap One of the Expedition 40 crew members onboard the International Space Station captured this oblique image of Typhoon Halong at 09:37:54 GMT on Aug. 5, 2014. The orbital outpost was at a position 225 miles above Earth over a point located at 14.2 degrees north latitude and 128.7 degrees east longitude.
    12 Dec 2015 … We need to paint a picture of what life could be like inside those scientific red lines, life within the limits imposed on us by nature. And that life needs to be not just better than a future of climate Continue reading
  8. If You Thought the Reproductive-Health Crisis in Texas Couldn’t Get Worse, Well… In this July 12, 2013, file photo, abortion rights supporters rally on the floor of the State Capitol rotunda in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Tamir Kalifa, File)
    10 Oct 2015 … The state’s move to cut Planned Parenthood off Medicaid funding will further limit poor women’s access to care. Continue reading
  9. If the Media Keeps Ignoring Health Care, We’ll Lose It Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel (R-KY) speaks during a news conference following a Senate Republican luncheon in Washington, DC, on May 16, 2017. (Photo by Zach Gibson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
    6 Jun 2017 … There is a giant scandal in Washington this week — and it’s not the one blaring from your television screen. Largely without media scrutiny, the United States Senate is quietly getting ready to pass their version of the House bill Continue reading
  10. Economic Populism at Heart of Emerging Debate Among Democrats Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., center, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, make statements introducing Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., seated at left, to the committee during his confirmation hearing to become secretary of state, replacing Clinton, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
    7 Jul 2014 … There is a broad agreement on what might be called a “populist lite” agenda, but that's where the consensus ends. Continue reading