Why Fascists Fear Teachers: Public Education and the Future of Democracy Randi Weingarten America’s most influential teacher’s union leader tells the anti-fascist history of public education, warning that American teachers today are under a new fascist assault–from book bans to culture wars and organized groups of “concerned” parents dictating what can… Continue reading
US President Donald Trump meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at White House in Washington DC on July 28, 2026. (Photo by Maâayan Toaf GPO/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images) “Prime Minister Netanyahu has a warrant out for his arrest for committing war crimes,” said one Democratic senator. “He should be nowhere… Continue reading
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky) makes his way to a vote in the US Capitol on April 30, 2026. (Photo by Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) “Kentuckians are just asking you to be honest,” said Gov. Andy Beshear. Stephen Prager Jul 28, 2026 (CommonDreams.org) After weeks of sitting on… Continue reading
Considerations on Representative Government John Stuart Mill In this powerful work, John Stuart Mill sets forth representative government as the most sensible compromise between unreflective rule by the masses and the self-indulgence of the few. The reader may sense that Mill is being pulled in opposing steadfastly committed to majority… Continue reading
This Is The Plan: How to End America’s Meltdown and Save Democracy by Ben Wikler (Author) Format: Hardcover “Ben Wikler is one of the most strategic and respected leaders of his generation. If we do what this book says, we will win.”―Nancy Pelosi From the most successful Democratic operative of the last decade, a… Continue reading
Troy Jackson, Democratic nominee for Maine Senate, greets delegates after winning the vote at the Maine Democrats Senate Nominating Convention in Bangor, Maine, on July 25, 2026. (Photo by Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) “People across Maine and the country are ready to come together and finish the… Continue reading
Plus: Another developer giveaway. That’s The Agenda for July 27-Aug 2 By Tim Redmond July 27, 2026 (48hills.org) The Planning Commission has been down to four members, the minimum to hold a meeting, for more than a month now, after the terms of three members appointed by the Board of… Continue reading
Glass Empires investigates the architects of constitutional rot. Free subscribers receive every article. Devoted readers who became patrons sponsored today’s work. W. A. Lawrence Jul 27, 2026 The Pentagon scheduled the National Guard’s Washington, D.C., crime-emergency deployment to end on January 20, 2029. Federal officials simultaneously committed taxpayers to a… Continue reading
by Yujie ZhouJuly 27, 2026 (MissionLocal.org) Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s communications director, Ian Krager, will be Supervisor Connie Chan’s congressional campaign’s communications director starting Aug. 1, according to Chan’s campaign. Political consultants say the move is yet another sign that Pelosi is putting her thumb on the scale for Chan. Pelosi… Continue reading
