Politics & Democracy

796 posts

‘We’re not going to accept anti-public education politicians’: New England educators speak out after lawsuit against Trump’s DEI ban

Teachers described uncertainty about the potential impact of Trump’s directive to eliminate DEI in public schools, especially on immigrant and low-income students

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5 Min
By: Shruti Rajkumar

How the IRS and ICE data-sharing memo will impact immigrant communities

Immigrant rights groups warn that the new policy will further marginalize undocumented immigrants and threaten billions in tax revenue

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4 Min
By: Bianca Gonzalez

Patients react to Trump’s closure of the long-COVID office: ‘I am horrified to think about care becoming less accessible’

Millions of people in the U.S. with long COVID are facing further government abandonment rather than receiving necessary care

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7 Min
By: Reina Sultan

Li’l Abner Mobile Home residents run for local office as park faces eviction and displacement

As voters head to the polls Tuesday, a group of residents is running for Sweetwater city commissioner seats in Florida to uproot the elected officials whose oversight they say landed them in this precarious position

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7 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Countering the Zionist disinformation campaign

Canary Mission went from a blacklist that harmed professional prospects to a dossier of people for the U.S. government to target and detain

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5 Min
By: Anna Lekas Miller

Wikipedia as a cultural lifeline: How museums are using the free online encyclopedia to archive marginalized art

As public archival institutions fade and the state rewrites curricula, the next generation of cultural workers is stepping up

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6 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Military expansion on Guam sucks up housing resources as Indigenous residents struggle

About 5,000 Marines are expected to move onto the unincorporated U.S. territory in the coming years, which experts and advocates say is driving up the cost of housing

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4 Min
By: Phillip V. Cruz, Jr.

Pittsburgh voters won’t get to choose whether to divest from genocide in May primary election

Legal challenges killed the referendum effort. Now, the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh is suing grassroots organizers for legal costs

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6 Min
By: Nicole Froio

May Day march in Chicago brings together anti-Trump coalition

Thousands marched in a day of action that brought together disparate groups alarmed by the Trump administration’s actions and attacks on immigrants

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5 Min
By: Noah Berlatsky

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD brass frequented events held by group linked to Israel’s far right

As city officials cracked down on anti-genocide protesters, Adams and top NYPD officers attended several events hosted by the Israel Heritage Foundation. One officer even showed up in his police uniform

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9 Min
By: Glen Stellmacher

A stalled detention pond in Houston illustrates much of what’s wrong with region’s flood mitigation efforts

The impasse of the Ruffino Hills Redevelopment Project is a microcosm of the city’s convoluted path to outpace climate disasters

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11 Min
By: Saba Khonsari

‘Power, not panic’: Immigrant rights advocates in California work to fortify against threats to ‘sanctuary state’ law

Some Democratic leaders who once championed immigrant protections are staying quiet as Trump targets immigrants, advocates say

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4 Min
By: Mariana Martínez Barba

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