"The upshot is that climate will just be ignored, as if climate change is not happening, when it comes to environmental reviews moving forward."

The ability of citizens to speak out against injustice is a living, vital tool; interference in political expression by the state cuts democracy off at the root.

The overt saber-rattling may be slowing now, but is that any thanks to media? Does it even mean an end to violence?

"I don't argue that we simply need to equalize how individuals finance their education.... We need to be changing the system of education, not simply individual access."

"We work toward the longer-term work of building solidarity across difference, and of trying to think about, 'How do we address the root causes of the hate that’s coming to the surface today?'”

"The more we can drag it into the sunlight, the more we can force them to defend the fact that they're proposing stealing our benefits, the less they're going to want to do it."

"The public, because it's not very well-represented by their elected representatives, is kept distanced from those arguments, and therefore doesn't even know they're going on, much less have a voice in them."

"We try to bring you voices you might not hear elsewhere: activists, researchers, reporters and teachers, who can illuminate what big media are getting wrong—or missing entirely—why it matters, and what we can do about it."

The Trump administration is pushing a rule change to take Social Security benefits out of the reach of millions of people with disabilities. Never mind that it's already hard to qualify, never mind that cutting benefits for many disabled people means t...

"If this flies, not only do we no longer have a rule of law in this country, but we are well on our way to a slide into authoritarianism."