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  • Letters From an American
    Rest in Power Justice Ginsburg
    September 19, 2020
    | Heather Cox Richardson

    September 18, 2020 Tonight, flowers are strewn on the steps of the Supreme Court, where “Equal Justice Under Law” is carved in stone. More than a thousand people gathered there tonight to mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died today from cancer at age 87. Justice Ginsburg was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 15, 1933, in an era when laws, as well as the customs they protected, treated women differently than men. ...

  • Justice
    On "Taking a Knee"
    July 9, 2020

    In response to the breathtaking, turning-point events of the past several weeks, Archives for Research into Archetypal Symbolism has produced a special video exploring and amplifying the symbolism of "Taking a Knee."

  • Justice
    A Judge Handed the Standing Rock Tribes a Big Win in Their Dakota Access Pipeline Fight
    July 8, 2020
    | Will Peischel

    After four years locked in legal struggle over the construction of the controversial 1,172 mile-long, Dakota Access Pipeline, the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes won a major victory on Monday when a federal court ordered the pipeline to cease its operations by August 5.

  • Letters From an American
    Trump's Campaign Ramps Up
    June 11, 2020

    It seems that the lines of Trump’s election campaign are solidifying — poll rage, praising the Confederacy and COVID-19 denial.

  • Inequality
    From the Principal's Office: Shaker Heights' Eric Juli Speaks Out
    June 2, 2020

    "I need to be clearer and louder in our community about what I believe our school is for. The purpose of our school isn’t simply to develop college and career ready students. I believe in my heart that developing citizens, with a clear and purposeful focus on social justice, is part of who we can and must be. But I need to say that and I need to say it loudly and publicly."

  • Bill Moyers in Conversation
    Transcript: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Conversation with Bill Moyers
    February 14, 2020
    The Judith Davidson Moyers Women of Spirit Lecture
  • Justice
    Trump Tears Down LBJ's Great Society Piece by Piece
    August 16, 2017
    | Christina Greer
    How the Trump election commission could corrode our civil rights from within.
  • Activism
    Taking On the Private Prison Industry's Corporate Backers
    August 3, 2017
    | Sarah Jaffe
    Activists are trying to combat both the accelerated tracking and detaining of immigrants and the use of for-profit prisons to hold them by targeting the big banks that prop up for-profit prison companies.
  • Activism
    Montana Moms Decided Refugees Are Welcome in Their City
    July 6, 2017
    | Gabriel Furshong
    Even in a conservative and rural state, Mary Poole and her book club felt Missoula was a good place for refugees. So they made it happen.
  • Democracy & Government
    What Herman Melville Can Teach Us About the Trump Era
    May 15, 2017
    | Ariel Dorfman
    He would point out that what plagues us are the sins of the past coming home to roost: America’s tolerance of bigotry and blindness to its own faults.


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