In the past two weeks, everything has changed… and nothing has changed. Two weeks ago tonight, 46-year-old Minneapolis man George Floyd was alive, going through his Sunday night as any one of us do, unaware—as we all are—of what the next day would bring.
June 4, 2020Protests continued for a tenth day today in the face of ongoing police brutality. That statement is going to anger some readers, but hoo, boy, the images of the police attacking peaceful protesters and journalists are going to be in textbooks in a few years, and our great grandchildren are going to ask how on earth this happened.
June 3, 2020Military leaders past and present and all four former U.S. presidents condemn Trump's "troops on the ground."
May 31, 2020In all this confusion, it feels like the lines are becoming clearer between those determined to reclaim fairness and equality before the law in America, and those determined to destroy civil society altogether.
May 30, 2020Outside Radicals, Incendiary Tweets and Shaky Facts
May 5, 2020Today’s pandemic alters our tradition of protest and dissent.
September 25, 2017Tonganoxie residents are the latest in a wave of rural communities standing up to Big Ag.
September 13, 2017Young activists take a lesson from Standing Rock: Pipelines are a threat worth fighting against.
September 8, 2017The late ‘60s and early ‘70s were crazy, but we’re looking wilder.
