In an age that’s increasingly anti-intellectual, the study of history is gravely necessary, and this novel reminds us that this threat has come before.
Donald Trump
DIRECT ATTACK: TRUMP’S THREAT TO LGBTQ YOUTH
On the impact of Trump’s reversal of guidelines allowing transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding to their gender identity.
#MEDIARANT: INSPIRED BY WEEK OF WATCHING SNOW COVERAGE
As for working journos, I'm here to rep for y’all. To rep for indies, and to kick the #mainstreammedia w/out the cheap right-wing vitriol
SUNSHINE WEEK SPECIAL: THE FOILIES 2017
Think of it as the Golden Raspberries but for government transparency, where the bad actors are actually going off script to deny the public the right to understand what business is being conducted on their behalf.
BOSTON THROWBACK: ACLU BENEFIT TO BRING NADA SURF, JULIANNA HATFIELD, BELLY, AND MORE TOGETHER ONSTAGE
The newly created series of benefit shows is organized by an ad hoc group of Boston musicians with the intent of donating all proceeds to the ACLU.
TRUST ACTING: DOES WALSH THINK PEOPLE FORGOT ABOUT HIS REFUGEE COMMENTS?
Meanwhile, while mainstream outlets surely know about the stances Walsh has taken in the past, as well as about the history of Boston and ICE, reporters seem more interested in flanking Walsh in his war against Trump than in questioning local authority.
DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS: CPACTIVISTS
I am stoned at CPAC. I am in hell. Here’s how it happened …
PROTEST BEAT: FOLLOW THE RUBLES
Hundreds demand investigation into Trump-Russia ties
SAVING SCIENCE, ONE DATASET AT A TIME
The librarians and archivists in the group were there to caution the technologists that this wasn’t a new problem, and to remind that the solutions would end up being more complicated than they might imagine.
GENERAL STRIKE: IS THE TRUMP VICTORY SPARKING THE RETURN OF LABOR’S MOST POWERFUL TACTIC?
A general strike is called to cause serious economic disruption aimed at bringing corporations and the government to their knees on a single issue, a group of issues, or even to overthrow the current political economic system itself.