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In an era of disasters and despotism, one way to get people connected and ready to respond is to host an open assembly. Here's how.

With Donald Trump in the White House and Republicans controlling the Senate, an increase in book bans is a serious threat.

Progress hasn’t stopped, but it’s never easy, and never without backlash.

In the last week, I have been referred to as "Daddy" more times than ever before in my life. And apparently I'm a "boomer" now. I've also been told that my blog is a psyop to protect the dollar. Since the twit-shitshow (twitshow) began, it looks like I got 1.7M "impressions", around 30K likes, 7K RTs, 700 replies, and my number of followers went from 15K to 24K. (But then I immediately ...

Election day, 2024.

The writer expresses dismay over the re-election of Donald Trump, likening it to a “zombie Palpatine” scenario. They reflect on the implications of GOP control, the potential rollback o…

The USA just had a historic and potentially defining election. This has left a lot of people wondering how we got here and what happened.

…what do you get? Answer: “Special Little Freedom Zones.” That’s what Reason’s Liz Wolfe calls the Honduran “charter cities,” officially known as ZEDEs  (Zones for Economic Development and Employment), which were declared illegal in September by the Honduran Supreme Court (“No More Special Little Freedom Zones,” September 25). The ruling prohibits the creation of new...

At Robert Eagle Staff Middle School, administrators are seeing a “huge improvement” after limiting students’ cellphone use during class time.

No one has ever gone broke betting on whiteness and patriarchy in America.

As a new collection of his writing is published, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend, the late activist and anarchist who believed ordinary people had the power to change the world

If someone suggests a Women’s March, so help me… (Twitter comment) I remember sitting in the teachers’ lunchroom at my middle school, January 2001, and having a woman I like and consider a good tea…

Betting on voter gratitude is a common mistake.

Local news outlets cannot change grocery prices. But they can help their readers deal with them.

Washington state’s Climate Commitment Act survived. It’s a promising sign for the future of climate action.

When Donald Trump won in 2016, we weren't sure if good journalism mattered anymore. Now, we're more sure than ever it does.

I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

The chances are if you know someone who is a former Apple employee, you’ll have heard their Steve Jobs anecdote, and that it was rather unflattering to the Apple co-founder. I’ve certai…

Toward a phenomenology of the phone.

When the economy thrives while half of America struggles, something has got to give.

A wristband that teaches you how to use technology for activism! Our black RESIST bracelet has a hidden USB storage drive (64MB) and comes loaded with a copy of the ultimate guide to modern ...

“Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest” is riveting firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challenges. Written by Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina and a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times who is currently also a faculty associate at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society.

The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.

After the election, some American women are turning to South Korean feminist activism.

Feeling despair after Trump’s election victory? Viktor Frankl can help.

A Democratic guide to minimizing harm from the coming Trump term

Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, who just won re-election, called out the Democratic party for failing to understand where Trump voters are coming from.

The hard conversation we need to have if we have any hope of saving American democracy