Public Education and Authoritarian Politics in West Virginia and Kentucky
In Kentucky and West Virginia, attacks on public education by the state and federal governments foreshadow the authoritarian future promised by Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation on a national scale.
Mahmoud Khalil’s harrowing and unlawful detention on March 8th captured widespread attention after plain-clothes ICE agents handcuffed and forced the permanent resident and recent graduate of Columbia…
This adapted essay is based on excerpts from Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2025), which are reprinted with permission from the author and…
During his confirmation hearing last Thursday, Trump nominee Dr. Marty Makary equivocated on whether Americans will maintain access to medication abortions if he’s confirmed as the next commissioner…
UPDATE 3/20/25: According to an AP report, President Trump will sign an executive order today formally directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to “take all necessary steps to facilitate the…
Matt and Mercedes Schlapp opened this year’s CPAC by celebrating: “Last year I said globalism was going to die,” Matt boomed, “and then it happened!” Then he turned to the audience and announced: “…
On Thursday of this past week, Vice President JD Vance visited the site of the Dachau concentration camp in Germany, making him the latest in a string of American public officials to visit a former…
One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), who will be released into home arrest…
In the wake of the election of Donald Trump with the strong support of White evangelical and other conservative White Christians, my organization, PRRI, released yesterday our annual update of the…
Bishop of Washington, Mariann Edgar Budde, led A Service of Prayer for the Nation on January 21, 2025, at the Washington National Cathedral. President Donald J. Trump and entourage were among the…