July 10, 2025

Trump's Cuts to Climate Funding Doesn't Align with Nation's Youths

Climate change has been a constant presence in my life. I was born in 2009; I am sixteen years old and have never known the normal that my parents speak of. During the years my…

July 9, 2025

Mamdani Win Urges Us to Resist American Theocracy

Zohran Mamdani’s Democratic primary victory has sparked an Islamophobic backlash in the United States, a country that seems to be moving rapidly toward becoming a theocracy with increasing religious intolerance for anything other than Evangelical Christianity….

July 8, 2025

Challenging Music's Gatekeepers

‘A text is not a text unless it hides from the first comer, from the first glance, the law of its composition.’ Jacques Derrida, Dissemination ‘It is possible,” says the gatekeeper, “but not now.’ Franz Kafka, Before…

July 3, 2025

Enough Is Enough: We Refuse to Let Them Starve, Sicken, and Silence Us

They are watching our families fight for survival—and choosing to cut us down with no remorse. Medicaid, SNAP, and public education are under siege, and the communities most affected—Black, brown, disabled, and low-income families—are already…

July 2, 2025

Amid ICE Raids, Immigrants Shouldn't Look to Rooftop Koreans in LA, but Chinese Contractors in NY

Shortly before the June 5 I.C.E. raids in the Los Angeles Fashion District and arrest of 45 workers, President Donald J. Trump explained that when he speaks about his goals to move more manufacturing to the USA, “We’re not…

July 2, 2025

Delta’s Meltdown Wasn’t Just a Tech Failure. It Was a Boardroom Failure.

When a software glitch crippled Delta Air Lines in July 2024, headlines placed the blame on a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. But nearly a year later, it’s clear that the real failure was…

July 1, 2025

Why does Canada Day Pride Stop at the Barn Door?

Every July 1st, we do something very un-Canadian: we brag… just a little. We tell ourselves a familiar story: that we are kind, fair, and the sort of country that says sorry and means it….

July 2, 2025

Amid ICE Raids, Immigrants Shouldn't Look to Rooftop Koreans in LA, but Chinese Contractors in NY

Shortly before the June 5 I.C.E. raids in the Los Angeles Fashion District and arrest of 45 workers, President Donald J. Trump explained that when he speaks about his goals to move more manufacturing to the USA, “We’re not…

July 2, 2025

Delta’s Meltdown Wasn’t Just a Tech Failure. It Was a Boardroom Failure.

When a software glitch crippled Delta Air Lines in July 2024, headlines placed the blame on a faulty update from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. But nearly a year later, it’s clear that the real failure was…

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