2025
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December 2025
- Please Watch These Videos for Tips for 2026
- Bernie Sanders: The World We Need and Deserve
- Mitzi: This Year, We Lost a Beautiful Soul
- Two Florida Editorial Boards Question Setting Aside a Day to Honor Charlie Kirk
- Jess Piper: Not That Kind of White
- Thom Hartmann: Trump Called His Critics “Scum.” I Am Not Scum. Are You?
- Performers Protest Name Change at Kennedy Center by Cancelling
- Trump Salutes Putin’s Commitment to Peace as Zelensky Arrives in Mar-a-Lago
- Jan Resseger: Is the Era of Civil Rights Enforcement Ending?
- After Demolishing East Wing of White House, Trump Will Seek Approval from Agencies He Controls
- Cruelty is not Part of the Christmas Spirit
- Heritage Foundation Staffers Resign to Join Pence
- What Should Mayor Mamdani Do to Improve NYC’s Public Schools?
- Trump Posts Another Blast at His Enemies
- Trump Sleeps in Heavenly Peace!
- Trump’s Christmas Message: Unifying, Uplifting (NOT!)
- White House: Santa Is an ICE Agent
- Trump’s Christmas Gift to Us: Reviving Coal While Killing Clean Energy
- Resistance: The Empty Manger
- Merry Deportation Day!
- Minneapolis: A Citizen Encounters ICE
- White House Sends Christmas Greetings
- On This Holy Day, Think About the Machinery of Cruelty All Around Us
- Can Trump Send the National Guard to Cities or Not?
- What Is “The Streisand Effect”?
- Kushner and Witkoff Revive Plan for Posh Gaza Resort
- Sharyn Alfonsi Gave This Advice to Aspiring Journalists at her Alma Mater
- Dan Rather: Why CBS Censored Story About Inhumane Conditions in Terror Prison
- Bloomberg News: Trump Is Reshaping the Economy
- Andy Spears: “Reformers” Have Indianapolis Public Schools in Their Sights
- Censored “60 Minutes” Program Posted on Reddit
- Pulitzer Prize Board Fights Trump Lawsuit with Great Demand: Full Disclosure
- Australia Bans Social Media for Children Under 16
- Did This Exam Increase Suicide Rate for South Korean Youth?
- The Scientific Breakthrough of the Year!
- Texas: Why Not Monetize Everything?
- Egomania Prevails: Board of Kennedy Center Renames It for Trump
- Trump Administration Will Close Major Center for Research on Climate Change
- Peter Greene: The Case for “Slow School”
- Mark Green: Don’t Let Trump Hijack July 4. How to Resist.
- Trump’s Illegal Demolition of the U.S. Department of Education
- How Jeffrey Epstein Became Wealthy: The New York Times Investigates
- Glenn Kessler: Trump’s Top Ten Lies of 2025
- Trump Says Murder of Reiners Was All about Trump
- Students Applying for College Must Be Wary of DEI!
- Musk and Trump Have Blood on Their Hands After Canceling US AID
- Why Indiana Refused to Redistrict to Help GOP Control the House in 2026
- The War on Public Education Hurts the Most Vulnerable Students
- Peter Greene: Today Is the Anniversary of the Sandy Hook Massacre. Remember?
- Justice Department Sues Fulton County, Georgia, In Effort to Prove that Trump Won in 2020, Not Biden
- Florida: State Chief Trashes Public Schools, Lauds Voucher Schools, Despite Scandals
- David French: Why the Laws of War Matter
- John Thompson: A Stellar Review of AN EDUCATION
- UCLA Report on Impact of ICE Raids: “The Fear Is Everywhere”
- Andy Spears: Florida “Lost” 30,000 Students Who Took Voucher Money
- Jeff Yass, the Billionaire Who Funds Vouchers
- Heather Cox Richardson: Winning with Racism and Culture Wars
- Carol Burris Interviews Me About My New Book
- Steve Schmidt: The Hegseth Ethos
- New Hampshire: Vouchers Are Robin Hood in Reverse
- The 74: More Religious Charter Schools Apply for Public $$
- Trump Did the Same Trick with His Florida Mortgages of Which He Accuses Letitia James, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Cook
- Heather Cox Richardson on Pearl Harbor and Its Message for Today
- NPE Releases a New Report on Charter Schools and Their Lack of Accountability
- Trump Celebrates Himself: Me! Me!
- Release the Video of The Boat Strikes! War Crime, Murder, or Neither?
- RFK Jr. Endangers the Lives of Children with His Extremist, Anti-Vax Views
- Florida: School Board Leaders Boo State Commissioner of Education
- Why an Advocate of High-Stakes Testing and School Choice Did a 180
- Supreme Court Okays Texas’ Gerrymandered Map; Tish James Wins in Court
- Florida: Wife of GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Builds a For-Profit Charter School Empire
- Peter Greene: Trump Is Not Sending Education Back to the States
- Gary Rubinstein Reviews “An Education” with Gusto!
- Trump Is Not Serious About Stopping the Flow of Drugs into the U.S.
- Jennifer Rubin: “The Buck” Stops Somewhere Else
- Atlanta: There Is No “Public School System”
- Glenn Kessler: Finding the Facts in a World of Lies and Propaganda
- Tom Ultican Reviews My New Book, with Some Personal Reflections
- New Hampshire: Parents Complain that Voucher Program is a Scam
- Our Pressure Cooker Schools Are Destroying Children and Childhood
- Carol Burris: Another Religious Charter School Applies for Public Funding in Oklahoma, Backed by For-Profit Corporation
November 2025
- The 1991 Film About Trump That Was Banned
- Happy Thanksgiving! Thoughts for 2025, Now
- We Will Never Learn What Is in the Epstein Files
- Andy Borowitz: The Story that Mainstream Media Won’t Touch–About “Katie Johnson”
- RFK Jr. Quietly Hires Anti-Vax Extremist as #2 at CDC
- Lisa Gonzalez: Generations of War and Bigotry
- At the Root of Charter School Scandals: Lobbying for Money and Power
- The Trump-Putin “Peace Plan” Spells Surrender for Ukraine
- Pennsylvania Requires Public Schools to Adopt “Evidence-Based” Reading Programs
- Tennessee: Parents’ Lawsuit Challenges Vouchers
- What You Need to Know about New Orleans: The Stories Behind the Statistics
- What Happened at the Lovefest at the Trump-Mamdani Press Conference
- Trump Honors Crown Prince Bonesaw
- How Did Zohran Mamdani Charm Trump?
- Jan Resseger: How the Trump Administration Undermines the Rights of Students and Teachers, Part 2.
- Jan Resseger: How the Trump Administration is Shutting Down the ED Department in Defiance of the Law–Part 1
- Josh Cowen Interviews Me About My New Book
- CDC Website Changed to Reflect RFK Jr. View of Vaccines and Autism
- Olga Lautman: Russia Wrote Trump’s Peace Plan
- Thom Hartmann: Destroying the Belief That White Men Are Entitled to Rule
- Karen Attiah on the Murder of Kashoggi and Trump’s Embrace of His Murderer
- Washington Post Exposes Secret Cabal That Plans to Make MAGA Permanent
- Why the Federal Appeals Court Overturned Texas’ Racial Gerrymander
- Jan Resseger: Trump’s Rush to Dismantle the Federal Government
- Trump Moves to Shut Down US Department of Education
- When Jimmy Kimmel Interviewed George W. Bush
- High School Graduate Beats His Government Teacher in County Election
- U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi Should Be Investigated for Ignoring Epstein’s Sex Crimes
- Stephen Dyer: How the Ohio Legislature Cheats the Majority of Students, Who Are Enrolled in PUBLIC Schools
- Trump’s Shocking Destruction of the Department of Justice
- Federal Judge Rules That Trump Regime Cannot Withhold $1.2 Billion from UCLA
- Trump’s Decadent “Great Gatsby” Party at Mar-a-Lago While Poor People Go Hungry
- Megyn Kelly Wondered if Epstein Was Really a Pedophile Because He Liked 15-Year-Olds, Not 5-Year-Olds
- Shutdown Over, But Staff at Ed Department Still Threatened
- Randy Rainbow Interviews Trump
- Ohio: Voters Oust Culture Warriors in Many School Board Elections
- Josh Cowen Interviews Gina Hinojosa, Who Is Running for Governor of Texas
- Obama Surprises Veterans’ Honor Flight by Welcoming Them to D.C.
- How Donald Trump Solved Healthcare (in His Brain)
- John Thompson: Oklahoma Wants to Copy the “Mississippi Miracle” by Retaining 3rd Graders
- Corporate Reformers Take Charge of National Governors Association, Undermine Public Schools
- Mary Trump: Her Uncle on Veterans Day
- New Hampshire: Voucher Program Grows Beyond Its Budget; 80% of Vouchers Used by Students Enrolled in Private Schools
- Colorado: Voters Like Their Public Schools
- Andy Spears: New Group in Tennessee Seeks to Eliminate Public Schools
- Chalkbeat: Union-Backed Candidates Sweep Denver School Board, Beating Big-Money Charter Supporters
- Norman Rockwell Family Protests Trump’s Misuse of His Work to Promote Racist Agenda
- Watch PBS’s “The Rise of RFK Jr.” Learn Who He Is.
- Why Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Paused the Full Funding of SNAP
- SCOTUS Pauses Order to Fully Fund SNAP
- Federal Judge Permanently Blocks Federal Troops in Portland, Oregon
- Musk Wins $1 Trillion Contract! Another Reason Mamdani Was Elected Mayor of NYC
- Jan Resseger: Don’t Believe the Lies about State Control of Federal Funds
- Justice J. Michael Luttig Denounces SCOTUS for Failing to Condemn Death Threats to Judges
- Peter Greene: Arne Duncan Is Now Betsy DeVos
- Podcaster Debra Shushan Interviews Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum About Her Support for Zohran Mamdani
- Pennsylvania: Democrats Sweep School Board Races, Ousting Extremists
- Zohran Mamdani’s Inspiring Victory Speech
- Why I Voted For Zohran Mamdani
- Heather Cox Richardson: An Overview of Trump’s Latest Scams and Lies
- Florida: Imprisoned Charter School Owner Seeks to Reduce Repayments to District He Cheated
- Joseph Stiglitz: A Critical Moment for Democracy in the World
- A Smart Interview About My New Book
- Jamelle Bouie: The Constitution Prohibits a Third Term for Presidents
- Peter Greene Reviews “An Education” in His Inimitable Style
- Trump Is Renovating the Lincoln Bathroom
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Repeatedly Ignores and Defies the Law
- The Most Annoying Story of the Month About Schools
- Thom Hartmann: Why Does the Shutdown Continue? Ask Senator Thune.
October 2025
- Heather Cox Richardson: Ominous Signs of Trump’s Use of the Military in Cities
- North Carolina: Four “Home Schoolers” Found Dead; Father Arrested
- President Ronald Reagan on the Benefits of Immigration
- President Ronald Reagan on the Dangers of Tariffs
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX is Partially Owned by Chinese Investors
- Ian Bassin: Why You Must Not Despair, Even in the Darkest of Times
- Play is Returning to Kindergarten!
- North Carolina: Legislature Expands Vouchers, Ignores Public Schools
- Cursive Writing Is Making a Comeback
- Carol Burris: Revisiting the New Orleans Hoax
- Nancy Flanagan Writes a Fine Review of My New Book
- Which Federal Agencies Are Laying Off Employees?
- Glenn Kessler: Trump Team Politicizes the White House Website
- Is Trump Planning to Go to War Against Venezuela?
- Reagan Opposed Tariffs; Trump Exploded When Canada Played the Tape!
- With Ryan Walters Out, It’s a New Day for Education in Oklahoma
- Ann Telnaes: Another Monument to Trump’s Megalomania (Magalomania)
- Trump and McMahon Illegally Undermine Special Education Services
- Pastors for Texas Children Speak Out Against State Takeover of Fort Worth Public Schools
- Glenn Kessler: Trump and the Destruction of Bonwit Teller’s Artistic Treasures
- North Carolina: Vouchers Are Great for Religious Schools!
- Texas Farmers Can’t Find Laborers to Work Their Fields
- Nancy Bailey: Remembering Why There’s Special Education Law
- Trump Demands That Justice Department Pay Him $230 Million for Investigating Him
- Trump Chaos as Usual
- My Memoirs Are Now in Print!
- Trump Demolishes East Wing of the White House. This Makes Me Sick!
- Trump’s “Compact” for Higher Education Flops; 7 of 9 Universities Reject It, So Far
- New Hampshire Refuses to Pay to Educate Its Children
- Republican Leaders Share Racist, Anti-Semitic, Sexist Jibes; JD Vance Doesn’t Care
- How a Cyber Charter Struck Back When It Was Fired by a School District in New Mexico
- Trump Flies Fighter Jet Across U.S., Spewing Feces on the American People
- White House Posts Video of Trump Dumping Feces on #NoKings Rallies
- #NoKings Day in Brooklyn
- Three More Universities Reject Trump’s “Compact”
- Dan Rather: Show Up and Speak Out!
- When Science Is Stranger Than Fiction
- Jennifer Rubin: Why Donald Trump Will Never Win the Nobel Peace Prize
- Join a “NO KINGS” Rally Tomorrow
- Trump and McMahon Wipe Out Special Education Staff in Education Department
- Tell Linda McMahon What You Think of “Patriotic Education”
- Ed Johnson’s Fascinating Exchange with AI About the Hypocrisy of Charter Schools
- Azar Nafisi Will Speak at Wellesley College on October 29! You Are Invited to Attend!
- Heather Cox Richardson: As Trump Destroys FDR’s Legacy, Symbols Matter
- You Are Invited to Hear Me Talk About My New Book at the Brooklyn Public Library!
- RFK Jr. Has a Problem with Jews
- Arkansas: 88% of Students Who Use Vouchers Never Attended Public Schools
- John Thompson on Hanna Rosin’s Podcasts about Oklahoma Education, Part II
- John Thompson Reviews Hanna Rosin’s Report on the Education Mess in Oklahoma: Part 1
- MIT’s President Rejects Trump “Compact” to Abandon Academic Freedom
- Kristi Noem Blocks Catholic Priest from Holding Communion for ICE Detainees
- A Delightful, Wise Post by Greg Olear: “Terence, This is Stupid Stuff”
- M.I.T. Rejects Trump “Compact” That Offers Federal Money for Academic Freedom
- Mike DeGuire: The Big Money Behind the Denver School Board Election
- “Trump Country Is Going Broke”
- Another Russian Tycoon Falls Out of His Window to His Death
- Venezuelan Opposition Leader Wins Nobel Peace Prize
- Overwhelming Majority of Mass Shootings Are by Males
- ProPublica: The Department of Education Wants to Destroy Public Schools
- Paul Offit: RFK Jr.’s Obsessions Threaten the Lives of Children
- Jack Hassard: What Happens When You Can’t Trust Government Data?
- The Trump Cabal’s “Compact” to Stamp Out Academic Freedom
- The Ultimate Debunking of the New Orleans Myth: The Human Toll on Black Students
- ICE is Our Very Own Gestapo
- Greg Olear: “F*** Them Kids!”
- Curtis Yarvin is Engaging in Two Debates at Yale
- Trump Adminstration Asks MIT to Abandon Academic Freedom to Secure Funding
- Julian Vasquez Heilig: The Cultural Significance of Bad Bunny Hosting the NFL Half-Time
- Trump’s Attack on Museums and History Is Fascist Capture of the Culture
- No, Trump Can’t Send in the Military Whenever He Wishes
- A Veteran Reacts to Trump and Hegseth Speeches to Top Brass in the Military
- The First Review of My New Book!
- Hegseth’s Hypocrisy on Military Standards for Fitness and Facial Hair
- Nikole Hannah-Jones: Charlie Kirk and the Mainstreaming of His Hateful Ideology
- What Jane Goodall Taught Us: The Wisdom We Need Now
- The GOP’s Shameful Attack on Public Schools
- Jennifer Berkshire: The New Orleans Hoax Rises Again
- I Am Anti-Fascist.
- Paul Offit: Is RFK Jr. an Alien?
- Trump Administration Plans Ban on All Federal Grants to Harvard…or Are They Close to a Deal?
- Hegseth and Trump Are Greeted with Stony Silence by Military Leaders
September 2025
- Leonie Haimson: Mamdani vs. Cuomo vs. Sliwa for Mayor of New York City
- Peter Greene: The Queen of Charter Schools in Florida
- The False Promise of Digital “Learning”
- Heather Cox Richardson: What Really Happened at Wounded Knee
- Trump Plans to Award Research Grants to Universities That Endorse His Values
- Success Academy Is Opening “No Excuses” Charters in Florida
- Trump is Our King George: What Would the Founders Say?
- Which Troops Will Trump Send to Portland, Oregon?
- Trump Orders Troops to Portland, Oregon
- We Have Lost a Dear Friend: David C. Berliner
- Josh Cowen Is Running for Congress as a Champion for Public Schools!
- Leonie Haimson: Time to Audit Success Academy!
- When Did the Republican Party abandon Its Commitment to Local Control?
- John Thompson on Ryan Walters, MAGA Zealot
- John Merrow: Beware the Terrorist Teachers!
- Florida Approves Vast Expansion of Charter Schools
- Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s Firebrand State Superintendent, Resigns
- Tiffany Trump and Her Husband Cruised on an Oil Magnate’s Super-Yacht As His Papa Negotiated Oil Deals
- The Failure of “School Choice” in Denver
- NOLA Parent: After 20 Years of “Ed Reform,” a $1 Billion Failure
- House Republicans Plan to Recast January 6 to Absolve Trump
- Glenn Kessler Fact-Checks Trump’s Speech at the UN
- Trump Excoriates the United Nations, Praises Himself, Mocks Climate Change
- Kristi Noem Oversaw as ICE Broke into a Home at 5:30 AM and Arrested 2 U.S. Citizens
- John Thompson: How to Understand the Conflicting NOLA Narratives
- Why Authoritarians Fear Comedians
- Trump and RFK Jr. Spread Lies about Science
- Supreme Court Allows Trump to Fire Last Democrat on Federal Trade Commission—Without Cause
- Disney Announces that Jimmy Kimmel Will Return Tomorrow!
- CNN Staff Are Worried by Potential Sale to Partisan Billionaire
- Will One Billionaire Own CBS and CNN?
- Ta-Nehisi Coates Examines Charlie Kirk’s Bigotry
- Idaho: Parents Sue to Block Vouchers. Leading Newspaper Agrees
- Heather Cox Richardson: Is the Tide Turning? Could Be.
- Trump Justice Department Killed Investigation of Border Czar Tom Homan for Taking $50,000 Cash Bribe
- Trump Fires US Attorney for Eastern Virginia for Failing to Prosecute Letitia James
- Trump Cancels Annual Hunger Survey
- Stephen Colbert Responds to Kimmel Affair with Hilarious Video
- Trump Family Cashes in on Two Big Deals, Involving United Arab Emirates
- RFK Jr. Vaccine Committee Revises Schedule, in Chaotic Meeting
- Texas Superintendent Goes Viral in Defense of Teachers, Books, and Public Schools!
- Trump Mob Cancels Jimmy Kimmel
- Department of Education Will Violate Federal Law by Joining with Right-Wing Groups to Create a Civics Curriculum
- Trump Goes to War….Against American Cities
- Kathleen West: I’m Having Some Thoughts About Teaching
- Florida: “We Have Accountability for Food Stamps, Why Not for School Vouchers?”
- Texas: Will Vouchers Kill Rural Schools?
- Two Federal Judges Block Trump Effort to Exclude Undocumented Children from Headstart
- Richard Rothstein: The Soft Bigotry of High Expectations
- Fascism Alert! JD Vance and Stephen Miller Describe Plans to Crack Down on Liberal Groups as “Domestic Terrorists”
- Trump Officials Order Removal of Signage and Exhibits about Slavery at Federal Sites
- The Campaign to Punish Those Who Did Not Mourn Charlie Kirk’s Death
- Jamelle Bouie: I Mourn Charlie’s Death But Not His Ideology
- Thom Hartmann: The “Both Sides” Scam Fuels Extremism
- Charlie Kirk Was the Voice of MAGA
- Trump is a Divider Who Won’t Even Try to Unite Us
- The Biggest Liar in Texas
- Texas: Some of the Worst-Performing Charters have Some of the Highest-Paid Superintendents
- Wyoming: The Fight Against Vouchers Continues
- Trump’s Tariffs and Foreign Policy are a Disaster for U.S.
- Glenn Kessler: Trump Is the Master of Bullshit
- Trump Will Restore Prayer in the Schools
- Charlie Kirk, Political Violence, and Gun Control
- Why America Still Needs Public Schools
- Susan B. Glasser: Trump’s Losing Streak in Federal Courts Continues
- Greg Olear: Defying Trump: Lessons from 1933. Part One.
- The Atlantic: Other World Leaders Laugh at Trump
- Thom Hartmann: Trump Orders Murder of 11 People on a Boat in International Waters
- Denver: Will Dark Money Buy the School Board?
- Fascism Alert! SCOTUS Allows Trump’s “Roving Patrols” of ICE
- The Courts Are Striking Down Trump’s Illegal Orders; What Will the Supreme Court Do?
- Sacramento: How Could a Charter School Misuse $180 Million in Two Years?
- Mercedes Schneider Reviews A Powerful New Book
- Thomas Ultican: The Curious Origin of the “Oakland Public Education Fund”
- Musician Jack White Answers Trump Insults
- “We Have Become an Authoritarian State, and Our Major Newsrooms Are in Denial”
- RFK Jr. Testifies Before Congressional Committee
- Jess Piper on “Dust-Licking Pimps”
- NYC: Debate Transformed a Low-Performing Middle School, Whose Team Won National Championship
- Bernie Sanders: RFK Jr. Must Resign!
- Florida Eliminates All Vaccine Requirements for School Children
- Florida: DeSantis Criminalizes Street Art
- DOJ Lawyer Accused Harvard of “Indifference to Anti-Semitism.” As an Undergraduate, He Wrote a Paper from Hitler’s View
- Pastors for Texas Children Speak Out Against the Harm of Standardized Testing
- John Thompson: Will Oklahoma Test Students on Their Knowledge of Christian Nationalism?
- Some of the Artworks That Trump Will Remove from the Smithsonian
- Jan Resseger: Federal Courts Block Trump Efforts to Abolish Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Congress Slashed Funding for Public Schools. They Lied! Protest!
- Former Directors of the CDC: RFK Jr. Endangers Public Health!
- Why is Trump Destroying the Foreign Service?
- Jennifer Berkshire: Is Public Education Over?
- There Was No “Miracle” in New Orleans
- The GOP Death March, Led by RFK Jr.
- Hegseth and Trump: Bring Back the Confederacy!
- Trump Celebrates Labor Day by Terminating Unions at More Federal Agencies
August 2025
- Illinois Governor JB Pritzker: “Leave Chicago Alone”
- Amos Schocken: A Two-State Solution Is the Only Path to Peace in the Middle East
- NIH Cuts Will Cause Economic Damage and Slash Research on Cures
- Richard Rothstein: It Is Time for Direct Action to Resist Tyranny!
- Watch Cabinet Members Grovel Before Trump
- Resignation Letters of Top Officials at CDC, After Kennedy Ousts Their Leader
- Trump Regime Halts Work on Wind Farms in Rhode Island and Maryland
- South Carolina: 1/3 of Vouchers Awarded to Students Who Remained in Public Schools
- Another School Shooting. More GOP “Thoughts and Prayers.”
- A Warning: Trump Declares That “A Lot of People” Want a Dictator
- Texas: Federal Judge Blocks Law Requiring Ten Commandments in Every Classroom
- Great News from Local Elections!
- Borowitz: Trump Replaces Pam Bondi as Attorney General
- RFK Jr. Fires Scientist Studying Environmental Causes of Autism
- Update: Paul Krugman Says: Prove the Allegations Against Lisa Cook!
- Paul Krugman: We Are All Lisa Cook Now
- Who Are Those “Elderly White Hippies” Ridiculed by Stephen Miller?
- Justice Department Pursues Personal Data on Trans Individuals
- A Letter to the Career Public Servants Tossed Out by DOGE
- Gary Rubinstein: KIPP Pulls a Fast One to Make The “U.S. News & World Report” List of “Best High Schools”
- Mississippi: Federal Judge Enjoins State Ban on DEI
- Trump Regime Begins to Cancel Bilingual Education
- Florida Federal Judge Orders “Alligator Alcatraz” to Close for Environmental Reasons
- Supreme Court by 5-4 Approves Cuts to NIH Research
- Trump Wants Smithsonian to Downplay or Eliminate Dark Portrayal of Slavery
- Oklahoma Creating Test for Teachers from CA and NY to Screen Out “Radicals”
- Carol Burris: Charter School Movement Runs Out of Gas, Decline Sets In
- Brilliant Speech by President of Finland on the Path to Peace in Ukraine
- A Day in the White House: You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
- Michael Bloomberg: Will Trump Let RFK Jr. Destroy His Greatest Achievement?
- Peter Greene: Why Is it Controversial to Welcome Everyone in a Public School Classroom?
- Trump Wants to Ban Mail-In Voting Because Putin Told Him So
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Goes Off the Rails
- Texas: Governor Abbott Hands Out Millions to Voucher Schools with No Oversight or Accountability
- James Fallows on the Alaska Summit
- Heather Cox Richardson on the Putin-Trump Summit
- Pennsylvania’s Largest CyberCharter Refuses to Make Its Financial Data Public
- School Choice Creates a Budget Disaster in Polk County, Florida
- An Apology to the People of Ukraine
- Thom Hartmann: Fight Trump’s Fascism Now
- Florida Judge Strikes Down Part of Book Banning Law
- Is Jeff Bezos Turning the Washington Post into a Mouthpiece for the Trump Regime?
- Federal Judge Overturns Ban on DEI
- Richard Haass: Trump Has Already Rewarded Putin
- Timothy Snyder: When Donald Meets Vlad
- Why Jess Piper is a Star
- New Hampshire: Vouchers Are Costly Subsidy for Mostly Affluent Families
- RFK Jr. Cancellation of Vaccine Research Was “the Most Dangerous Public Health Decision,” Says Expert
- Nancy Bailey: School Reforms That Succeed
- Becky Pringle: Hungry Children Can’t Learn
- Trump Orders Review of Smithsonian Museums to Remove Unpatriotic Exhibits
- Did Trump’s Hiring Freeze Raise the Death Toll in Texas Floods?
- National Science Foundation Absorbed Deep Cuts in Staff and Funding
- New Hampshire: Governor Selects Nonpartisan Bureaucrat as Superintendent
- Trump Administration is Extorting Hundreds of Millions from Universities
- Rachel Maddow: Our Worst Fears Have Come True
- Thomas Friedman: The World As We Knew It Is Rapidly Slipping Away
- Jennifer Frey: College Students Are Eager to Engage in the Liberal Arts
- John Thompson: Immigrant Children in Oklahoma Live in Fear
- Dan Rather: The Absurdity of Installing a “Bias Monitor” at CBS
- Trump Signs Executive Order Requiring All Colleges to Submit Racial Data
- Science Research in New England Gets a Reprieve from DEI Ban, for Now
- Peter Greene: A Major For-Profit Chain Implodes
- Jennifer Berkshire: How Democrats Miss the Boat on Education Issues
- Arizona: School Choice Harms Public Schools
- Why Should Democrats Be Divided About Vouchers?
- Columbia and Brown Agree to Give Trump Administration All Data on Race and Test Scores of New Admissions
- Tom Ultican: Christian Nationalism Comes for the Schools
- Jan Resseger: Senate Appropriations Committee Rejects Trump Plan to Slash Education Funding
- Ex-CIA Whistleblower: The 2024 Election Was Rigged
- Thom Hartmann: Time for Progressives to Become Active In the Democratic Party
- Prominent Scholar Cancels Class at Columbia to Protest Capitulation to Trump
- Trump Foolishly Fired BLS Commissioner Because He Didn’t Like the Data
- Trump Fires Official for Reporting Bad News on Jobs
- Texas: The Hoax of Charter Schools
- Colorado: Aeronautics Charter School Closes Suddenly, Two Weeks Before Start of Semester
- NPE: Charter Schools in Decline: A National Report
July 2025
- Paul L. Thomas: There Is No Reading “Crisis!
- Accell Schools–For-Profit and Online–Hires Bill Bennett as Provost of Its New Classical Academies
- Indiana: College Enrollment Declines from 65% to 51.7%
- Department of Justice Withdraws Decree Requiring Schools in This Louisiana Parish to Integrate
- Trump Assaults Academic Freedom in Universities
- A Purge Sweeps Away Veteran Columnists at Washington Post
- John Thompson: Oklahoma’s Ryan Walters Protects Students from “Radical Leftist Ideology”
- Jennifer Berkshire: A New Path, with Less Opportunity and Less Social Mobility
- New Republic: SCOTUS’ Decision to Let Trump Abolish ED Dept is Shameful
- Oklahoma: Board Members Shocked by Images of Nude Women on Ryan Walters’ Screen In Executive Session
- New Hampshire: Do Parents Have the “Right” to Abuse and Neglect Their Children?
- El Paso: IDEA’s First Graduating Class Lost Half Its Students
- Trump Administration Releases School Funding It Was Withholding
- Mark Joseph Stern: The Supreme Court Majority Are MAGA Sycophants
- The Supreme Court Majority Are MAGA Sycophants
- Florida: School Libraries Told to Remove 55 Books–But Most Had Never Been Checked Out
- Brookings Institution: What Recent Supreme Court Decisions Mean for Public Schools
- Jan Resseger: Ohio Legislature Robs Public Schools to Fill Pockets of the Rich
- Charter School Director Indicted for Fraud and Embezzlement
- Judd Legum: Elon Musk Company Sought Federal Designation as “Disadvantaged”
- Trump’s “One Big Ugly Budget Bill” Increases Taxes on Some Colleges, Eliminates It on Others
- Parents Are the Most Important Element in Student Learning
- Arnold and Carol Hillman: What We Learned in Our Nine Years in South Carolina
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Distractions from Epstein Files Are Not Working
- Will Todd Blanche Offer Ghislaine Maxwell a Deal?
- 404 Media: White House Partners with PragerU to Produce Cheerful Videos about U.S. History
- New Hampshire: Republican Governor Vetoes Rightwing Bills
- John Thompson: Trump’s “One Big Ugly Bill” Will Kill Millions of People And Won’t Save Money
- Why Didn’t Pam Bondi Prosecute Jeffrey Epstein When She was Florida AG?
- Ellie Leonard on Ghislaine Maxwell–The Woman Who Knew Too Much
- Write Secretary McMahon Now: Release the Money to Schools!
- Congress Exempts Trump and Vance from Conflict of Interest re Crytocoins
- Politico: Tulsi Gabbard Threatens to Prosecute Obama Officials for “Treason”
- Environmental Protection Agency Fires Hundreds of Scientists, Stops Research
- Brian Stelter: WSJ Story about Trump and Epstein Surprised Everyone
- “A Series of Unfortunate Events Connecting Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein”
- Justice Department Employees Dismissed Without Reason, Creating Climate of Fear
- Paul Krugman: Trump Understands Nothing About Tariffs
- The Teenage Girl Who Struck Out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig
- Missouri: Legislature Bans Teacher Use of “Three Cueing”
- Heather Cox Richardson: In the Trump Administration, Cruelty Is the Point
- Stephen Colbert and Father James Martin: Preserve Separation of Church and State
- Heather Cox Richardson: Everything You Need to Know About Immigration Law
- Johann Neem: Is the Supreme Court On Track to Outlaw Public Schools?
- New York Times Publishes Absurd Story About Mamdani
- Headstart Leaders Speak Out Against Kennedy’s Order to Ban Children of Non-Citizens
- SCOTUS Gives Trump Permission to Eliminate Department of Education
- Jan Resseger: Trump Is Obliterating Civil Rights Laws
- Measles Returns, 25 Years After It Was Eradicated
- GOP Has a New Culture War Target: Superman
- Trump Throws Global Economy into Chaos with On-again, Off-again Tariffs
- The Cartoonist Who Was Canceled by MAGA
- The Day That Twitter’s GROK Went Full Nazi
- Trump Budget Guts Scientific Research
- Josh Cowen Is Running for Congress in Michigan!
- Ted Cruz Slashed NOAA Funding for Weather Forecasting in Trump Budget
- Michael Cohen: Texas Sat on a $30 Billion Surplus and Refused to Build a Flood Warning System
- The Texas Flood Deaths Could Have Been Prevented
- Stephen Miller: A Life and Career Driven by Hate and Ruthless Ambition
- RFK Jr. Endorses a Packaged Meal Loaded with Additives
- Dan Rather: Robert Kennedy Jr. Is a Public Menace
- Michael Tomasky: What Will ICE Do with Its Enormous New Budget ?
- IRS Rules That Churches May Endorse Political Candidates
- Trump’s Energy Department Hires Climate Change Deniers
- A Message to MAGA
- Anand: A Biblical Flood, a Girl’s Death, and a Great-Grandfather’s Legacy
- Alligator Alcatraz: Depravity in the Everglades
- Florida: Ousted Staff at New College Say DeSantis’ Allies Raided Restricted Funds to Pay President’s Bloated Salary
- CBS Sells Out, Capitulates to Trump’s Demand for Payoff
- Anand: The Plutocrats Stop Pretending to be Philanthropists
- Texas Floods: Staff Cuts at Weather Service, Plus Local Refusal to Pay Taxes for Early Warning=Disaster
- GOP Tax on College Endowments Excludes Some Lucky Winners
- DOGE Cuts to NOAA and National Weather Service Blamed for Deaths in Texas Floods
- July 4th: No Celebration for Me Today
- Two Highly-Recommended Movies!
- Jan Resseger: Administration Cancels Federal Funding on Short Notice
- Did You Know That Trump Is Suing the Pulitzer Prize Board?
- Should Trump Be Added to Mount Rushmore?
- Timothy Snyder: Ed Martin is the Loyal Puppet of Putin and Trump
- Molly Ivins: Vouchers Are a Stupid Idea
- Billionaires Are Running Our Country, Says German Data Firm
- Julian Vasquez Heilig: Racism and Sexism Are Baked into AI
- David Dayen: What Else Is Included in the Big Ugly Budget Bill?
- Randi Weingarten: Trump’s Big Bad Bill Is Good for His Billionaire Buddies
- The Senate Passes Trump’s Big Ugly Budget Deal, and Vouchers Are in It
- Republicans Race to Pass the World’s Worst Legislation to Please Trump
- How Republicans Preserve White Supremacy
- Carol Burris: Update on the School Funds in Trump’s Big Ugly Budget Bill
- Glenn Sacks: I Teach Immigrant Kids in an L.A. High School: Here’s the Truth
June 2025
- What Is Trump Afraid of?
- John Merrow: It’s Not Enough to Oppose Trump. What Are We For?
- Indiana Spends $497 Million on Vouchers, Most for Affluent Kids in Private Schools
- The New Republic: The GOP Plot to Un-Educate America
- Trump Administration Forces Resignation of UVA President Over DEI
- Federal Judge Enjoins Trump’s Order to Bust Government Employee Unions
- Senate Parliamentarian Removes Vouchers from GOP “One Big Ugly Bill”
- Diane Francis: Why Won’t Trump Try to Stop the War in Ukraine?
- Dr. Jeremy Faust: RFK’s Farcical, Frightening Vaccine Committee’s First Meeting
- Stephen Dyer: Vouchers in Ohio Are a Disaster! I Told You So!
- Bill Moyers, a Great American, Is Dead
- The NY Times: DOGE Lied About Social Security
- Dr. Leana Wen: Where to Find Accurate Vaccine Information After RFK Jr.’s Coup
- Ohio: Judge Rules that EdChoice Vouchers Violate State Constitution
- Heather Cox Richardson Questions Trump’s Mental Health After His Frenzied Tweets
- Florida: Rare Public Protest Kills GOP Plan to Cut Funding for AP CLASSES
- The Philosopher Crackpot Who Hates Democracy and Influences Powerful Tech Bros
- Trump Strips Protection from 58 Million Acres of Wilderness
- Federal Judge Again Blocks Trump’s Ban on International Students
- The Stench of Censorship Spreads in Higher Education in Red States
- The American Bar Association Sues Trump for Intimidating Law Firms
- The Battle Over the Ten Commandments in the Classroom
- Taxing the Endowments of Colleges and Universities Is Grossly Unfair!
- Trump Tax Bill Harms Public Schools by Funding Private Choices
- Donald Trump: “I Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize”
- Trump Slashes Staff at Voice of America
- A New Statue On the DC Mall Mocks Dictators, One in Particular
- DANGER! Trump’s “One Big Ugly Bill” Protects AI for a Decade
- Tom Ultican: Don’t Revive Failed Policies
- Trump’s “One Big Ugly Bill” Will Devastate Rural Hospitals
- Benjamin R. Cremer: Why We Celebrate Juneteenth
- Glenn Kessler Fact-Checks Rubio-Vance Lies About Foreign Aid
- Heather Cox Richardson: Under Our Mafia Boss, Everything Is For Sale
- Did the Tech Bros Rig the 2024 Election?
- John Thompson: MAGA Republicans in Oklahoma Are Hurting the People Who Elected Them
- Trump Reverses Decision to Stop ICE Raids in Farming, Hotels, and Restaurants
- ProPublica: How Trump Is Killing Medical Research: But Why?
- Joyce Vance: The Kids Are Alright Despite Trump’s Efforts to Kill Public Education and Academic Freedom
- Arizona: Cost of Universal Vouchers Reaches $872 Million per Year
- Musk Is Gone But His DOGS Live On, Embedded in Agencies
- Anand Girihadaras: Why Trump’s Birthday Parade Failed
- Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s Ugly Bill Will Hurt His Supporters
- Study: In States with Lax Gun Laws, More Children Are Killed by Guns
- Steve Ruis: A DEI Abomination!
- Trump’s Ignorant Comments about World War II
- Trump is Incoherent on ICE Raids of Farm Workers
- Wall Street Journal: Trump’s Immigration Policy Is Wrong
- Political Assassinations in Minnesota
- Trump Halts ICE Raids at Farms, Restaurants, Hotels
- Trump Tries to Cancel National History Day and Fails–This Year
- Congressional Budget Office: Trump Tax Plan Will Enrich the Rich, Reduce Income for the Poor
- Timothy Snyder: Trump’s Fascist Speech to the Troops at Fort Bragg
- Federal Appeals Court Restores Trump’s Control of Ca. National Guard
- Federal Judge Orders Trump to Return Control of CA National Guard to Gov. Newsom
- DeSantis Fails to Acknowledge That Victims of Pulse Massacre were LGTB and Hispanic
- Orlando: A Tribute to the 49 People Murdered at the Pulse Nightclub in 2016
- Jan Resseger: Trump’s Ugly Budget Bill Defunds Public Schools
- EPIC Charter Downsizes, Fires the Principals, Cuts Teachers’ Salaries
- Turmoil at the V.A., Amid Deep Cuts of Employees and Healthcare
- Trump Lashes Out at His Enemies and Sells Merch to Troops at Fort Bragg
- Six Nobel Laureates in Economics Denounce Trump Budget Bill
- Governor Gavin Newsom: Do Not Give In to a Lawless President
- Trump Shows His Fascist Face
- Gary Legum: ABC Punishes Reporter for Accurate Description of Stephen Miller
- Brookings Analysis: Trump’s “School Choice” Plan Enables Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
- Trump Will Cut More Federal Workers Next Year
- Florida: College Presidencies Go to Grifters and GOP Cronies. Merit Doesn’t Count.
- RFK Jr. Fires Every Member of CDC Expert Advisory Panel on Vaccines
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Manufactures a Crisis to Distract from Real Problems
- Trump Is Trying to Seize Control of Public Broadcasting, But Judge Blocks Him, for Now
- Russ Vought Will Keep the DOGS going Without Elon
- New Hampshire: GOP is “Willfully and Knowingly” Sabotaging Public Education
- Is Harvard Teaching Remedial Math? Trump Says It Is.
- Federal Appeals Court Allows Trump to Exclude AP from Press Pool
- Heather Cox Richardson: History Matters. Truth Matters. Here is a Plan.
- U.S. Supreme Court Allows DOGE to Access Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
- It’s Dangerous to Call Him “TACO” Trump
- Florida: DeSantis Degraded Education at Every Level
- Glenn Kessler Fact-Checks Marco Rubio’s Claim that No One Died When Foreign Aid Stopped
- Elon’s Tweets Today About Trump, Trump’s Responses
- Heather Cox Richardson: GOP Budget Bill Is Packed with Deadly Cuts and Lies
- Jan Resseger: Trump Guts Civil Rights Laws
- The Insane Killing of Medical Research by Trump
- Rosa DeLauro Flays Russ Vought, Director of OMB
- Paul Szep, Canadian Cartoonist
- Jeff Bezos Flails in Desperation, As He Struggles to Revive Washington Post
- John Thompson: “Proficiency” Is NOT Grade Level, Not Even in Oklahoma
- NPR: Trump’s Agreements with Law Firms May Be Illegal
- Musk Blasts Trump’s Budget and Tax Bill as Bloated
- Thomas Ultican: Billionaires and Charter Schools in California: A Toxic Deal
- Why Ukraine Will Win the War
- NPR Will Fight Trump’s Effort to Cut Off Funding
- Georgia: Brain-Dead Woman Kept on Life Support Because She Was 9 Weeks Pregnant
- Jamelle Bouie: Don’t Be Fooled Again by the GOP Tax Plan
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump and Musk Are Destroying the Government
- Secretary of ED McMahon Wants to Destroy US Education with Her Budget!
- Pope Leo Will Send a Video Message to Chicago Mass on Same Day as Trump’s Parade
May 2025
- Federal Judge Restores Visa to Russian Harvard Scientist
- NYC: ICE Snatches High School Student Who Entered Legally
- Oliver Darcy: Don’t Fall for the Rightwing Attacks on Biden
- Trump Regime Inflicts Chaos on Prestigious Science Agencies
- Peter Greene: The Perverse Incentives of School Choice
- Teachers! New York City Is Hiring to Reduce Class Sizes!
- Thomas Edsall: What Scholars Say About Trump’s Reign of Error and Chaos
- Heather Cox Richardson: Courts Are Our Guardrail–For Now
- Maurice Cunningham: DFER Moves into MAGA Orbit
- U.S. Navy Restores Almost All of the DEI Banned Books
- Trump Threatens to Transfer Harvard’s Billions for Scientific Research to Trade Schools, Demands Names of Foreign Students
- Judge Tosses Lawsuit Against Reading Reseacher Lucy Calkins, Other Reading Researchets
- Trump’s Kennedy Center Agenda Features Drag Artists
- DANGER! DANGER! DANGER! The “Beautiful” Tax Bill Guts the Rule of Law!
- Trump Posted Unhinged Ravings for Memorial Day
- Bruce Springsteen: “No Retreat!”
- The American Academy of Arts and Sciences Issues a Statement about the Current Crisis
- A Personal Report to My Friends Who Read the Blog
- New Policy! No Posts Today or Tomorrow!
- This Cartoon Was Deleted from a PBS Special About the Artist, Art Spiegelman
- My New Book is Now Available for Pre-Order on Amazon!
- William Kristol: A Permanent Stain on Our History
- What’s Missing from the Story About the Qatari Jet That Trump Wants
- What Can the Federal Government Do to Promote Learning?
- Breaking News! Trump Revokes Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International students
- Federal Judge Blocks Shutdown of Department of Education
- U.S. Supreme Court Splits 4-4 on Oklahoma Religious Charter School, Meaning No
- Michael Hiltzik: RFK Jr. is a Danger to Public Health
- Jennifer Berkshire: What’s Next for Vouchers: Champagne or Storm Clouds?
- PBS: What You Need to Know About Medicaid
- LA Times: Trump Claims Harris Campaign Paid Celebrities to Endorse Her
- Fareed Zakaria: Trump’s War on Science Is Damaging Our Economy and Our Future
- Leonie Haimson: How States Can Inspire One Another to Fight for Successful Policies
- Why Trump Hates PBS: The Definitive Explanation
- Wall Street Journal: Trump Tax Plan Will Not Cut the Deficit
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump’s Politics of Distraction
- Now Will They Leave Joe Biden Alone?
- Why Does the Trump Administration Want to Deport or Imprison This Cancer Researcher?
- Drag Show Owners Beat DeSantis in Court
- Netanyahu Is a War Criminal. Will Trump Stop Him?
- Georgia: Brain-Dead Woman Kept Alive Because She Was Nine Weeks Pregnant
- Bruce Springsteen’s “Message to America” and Trump’s Reply
- Trump’s Amazing Accomplishments in the Middle East
- McMahon Announces Increase in Funding to Federal Charter Schools Program, Despite Multiple Failures
- Breaking News: Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Research Grants at Harvard
- How the New GOP Tax Bill Benefits the Rich and Forces Vouchers into Every State
- RFK Jr.’s Doublespeak About Vaccines
- Stephen Miller Wants to Abolish Habeas Corpus. This Is Why He Is Wrong.
- Michael Tomasky: Elon Musk is a Stupid, Incompetent Man
- Why The Qataris Are Happy To Dump Their 747 On Trump
- White House Explodes Over Story Critical of Don Jr.
- Michael Hiltzik: Trump’s Tariff War is Nonsensical
- Carol Burris: Why the Charter Lobby Fears the Next Supreme Court Decision
- RFK Jr. Takes the Family Swimming on Mother’s Day—in a Toxic Creek
- Chief Justice Roberts Blames “Lack of Civics Education” for Breakdown in Respect for Law
- Lithwick & Stern: A Time for Lawyers to Defend Their Profession and Democracy
- The Atlantic: Trump Declares War on the Rule of Law
- Marc Elias’s Democracy Docket: Sign up
- NEA: The Purpose of Block Grants is to Diminish Federal Responsibility for Education
- NEA: Trump Slashes Education Budget, Encourages Privatization of Public Schools
- Bill Kristol: Trump’s Sugar Daddy Gives Him a Luxurious Airplane
- Mothers Against Greg Abbott Sums Up the Awful Record of the Texas Legislature
- Texas: More Than 700 Cases of Measles Reported
- Financial Times: Bill Gates Slams Elon Musk
- Qatar Gives Trump a Super-Luxury Airplane to Replace Airforce 1
- Jeff Tiedrich: MAGA Doesn’t Like the New Pope!
- Republicans Planning Major Increase in Tax on College Endowments
- Michael Tomasky: Why No One Cares that Trump Is Raking in $1 Billion a Month
- Arkansas: Supporters of Abortion Rights Meet, Protestors Don’t Show Up
- Senator Chris Murphy Gives a Master Class in Cutting Through B.S.
- Trump Plans Deep Cuts to Interior Department, National Parks Service
- Federal Judge Orders Immediate Release of Tufts Graduate Student from ICE Detention!
- New York: State Education Commissioner’s Staff Member Blasts Governor Hochul!
- Where Did Trump Get the Nutty Idea of Reopening Alcatraz?
- Heather Cox Richardson: The New Pope’s Clash with MAGA
- Genealogist: The New Pope Has Afro-Caribbean Roots in New Orleans
- Kristi Noem Fires Acting Head of FEMA Because He Doesn’t Want to Abolish It
- Trump Withdraws Nomination of Ed Martin as U.S. Attorney for DC!
- Breaking News: Trump Administration Encouraging Other Nations to Sign Up For Musk’s Starlink Internet Service to Cut Tariffs
- Randi Weingarten: Not Everyone Needs or Wants to Go to College. That’s OK.
- Rob Curran: ICE Is Taking Away Our Neighbors
- Elon Musk Has His Own Town in Texas
- Joyce Vance: Good News! It’s Working!
- Thom Hartmann: Trump and the Death of Our Ideals
- Secretary Linda McMahon Sent a Rude, Threatening Letter to Harvard
- Trump’s Unprecedented Threat to Take Away Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
- Pastors for Texas Children on the Signing of the Voucher Bill
- ProPublica: Trump’s Choice for US Attorney in D.C. is Ethically Challenged–and a MAGA Extremist
- New York: Orthodox Jewish Schools Hope to Evade the Law and Collect Public Money
- Fact-Checking Trump’s Claims About His First 100 Days
- The Atlantic: The Inside Story of How Trump Regained Power: “I Run the Country and the World”
- Trump Plans to Revise U.S. History in the Smithsonian and All Other Federal Sites
- Maine Governor Mills Stands Up to Trump’s Bullying; He Backs Down
- Dana Milbank: Trump and His Ideas are Meshuggene
- Why is Trump Killing the Voice of America?
- Texas: Governor Abbott Celebrates His Big Voucher Win and Lies About It
- Jonathan V. Last: MAHA Is a Fraud
- John Thompson: Oklahoma Has Its Own DOGE, Just as Destructive as Elon’s
- Catherine Rampell: Why Does Trump’s Regime Have Your Data and How Will They Use It?
- Trump Signs Executive Order Urging CPB to Stop Funding NPR and PBS
- Daniel Dale of CNN: Trump’s 100 Lies in 100 Days
- Republicans Were Eager to Investigate Biden, But Not Trump
- Trump Launches an Era of Unprecedented Corruption in His Second Term
- Conflict of Interest? No Problem. Trump Family Will Collect Hundreds of Millions
- Trump Celebrated His First 100 Days by Attacking Biden
- Thom Hartmann: Democracy Can Die in Broad Daylight
April 2025
- Poll: Most Americans Believe Trump is “a Dangerous Dictator” Who Might “Destroy American Democracy”
- Musk’s DOGE Protects One (1) Person: Elon Musk
- Did Musk and DOGE Save Any Money at All?
- Trump Fires Biden Appointees on Board of Holocaust Museum
- Fareed Zakaria: Trump’s War on Science Is Bad for America
- Trump’s Insane War on Science
- John Thompson: Who Caused the Havoc in Tulsa Schools?
- Hannah Szabó, a Transgender Woman, Describes Her Choices
- Joyce Vance: Stand Up and Speak Out for the Rule of Law!
- Samuel E. Abrams: The Mounting Trouble with Education Savings Accounts
- Thom Hartmann: Why Pam Bondi Arrested Judge Dugan in Milwaukee
- Jamelle Bouie: Trump Has No Interest in Governing
- The Arrest of Judge Hannah Dugan Undermines the Rule of Law
- Michael Tomasky: Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
- Robert Reich: Trump Is Following Viktor Orban’s Model
- KIPP Charter Chain Can’t Account for $52 Million
- Why is Trump Going to the Funeral of a Pope He Didn’t Like?
- Wisconsin: State Superintendent Underly Hails Two Court Decisions Undercutting Trump DEI Ban
- North Dakota Becomes 47th State to Authorize Charter Schools Despite Decades of Broken Promises
- Federal Judges Order Pentagon to Resume Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Troops
- Federal Judge Partially Blocks Trump DEI Ban
- CNN: The World’s Coral Reefs Are Dying
- Carol Burris: With Religious Charters, the Charter Lobby’s Chickens Have Come Home to Roost
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump’s “Peace Plan” for Ukraine Is Putin’s Plan
- Bye Bye, Tennessee Non-Achievement School District
- Randi Weingarten: Trump’s War on Knowledge
- U.S. Navy Cancels Lecture by Author Who Planned to Complain About Book Bans
- Thomas Friedman: “I Have Never Been More Afraid for My Country’s Future”
- More Than 100 Universities Sign Statement Rejecting Trump’s Interference in and Control of Their Campuses
- Will Ron DeSantis Outrun This Scandal?
- Robert Shepherd: Trump’s Attack on Nature is a Disaster
- ProPublica: Trump’s War on Data Undermines Public Policy
- Politico: MAGA Loyalist Describes a Month of Chaos at the Pentagon
- DOGE Kids Are Slashing Government Agencies, While Holding Multiple Jobs
- Memo Leaked about Cuts to State Department, Slashing Africa Offices, Climate and Human Rights Agencies
- Best Easter Tweet!
- Trump Posts an Angry, Bitter Easter Message on “Truth Social”
- Easter: Reflecting on the Deaths Caused by DOGE Dismantling USAID
- Evangelicals Have Office in the White House
- Beautiful! Stairwell Singing of “Ave Maria”
- Boston Globe: Harvard May Beat Trump by Using His Tactics
- Trump Plans to Harass More NonProfits that Help Poor People: His Easter Message
- A Brilliant Decision by a Conservative Judge Rebukes Trump Administration
- Trump Chooses Lawyer as DC Federal Prosecutor Who is a Putin Puppet and J6 Defender
- Texas: The Sordid Story Behind the Passage of Vouchers
- Department of Homeland Security Demands Harvard Turn Over International Student Disciplinary Records
- IRS Considering Revoking Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status, New York Times Reports
- Texas: Republican Legislators Endorse Vouchers
- Denis Smith: What I Learned at the NPE Conference in Ohio
- Texas: Religious Leaders Condemn Governor Abbott’s Decision to Hold Vote on Vouchers During Holy Week
- Harvard President Rejects Government Control; Trump Threatens to Strip Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
- Thom Hartmann: The Day Democracy Died in the U.S.A.
- Aaron Tang: The Supreme Court Threatens Public Schools Even More Than Trump
- Anand Talks to a Therapist: How to Survive the Abuser-in-Chief
- Harvard Will Not Bow to Trump’s Demands
- Reminder: Dr. Azar Nafisi Event at Wellesley College CANCELED!
- Thomas L. Friedman: After Trump’s Tariff Fiasco, Will Any Other Nation Trust America?
- As Global Economy Imploded, Trump’s Cash Register Was Going Ka-Ching
- Trump Wants to Erase the History He Doesn’t Like, But Historians Are Pushing Back
- Joyce Vance: Do Republicans Care About Trump’s Tyranny? If Not Now, When?
- Why Care about Public Schools? A Dialogue.
- Immigration Service Will Screen Social Media Accounts for Anti-Semitism: Deport Elon!
- What Did You Do to Stop Fascism?
- Should We Trust Trump?
- Nancy Flanagan: Teachers Must Be Heard!
- Allison Gill: Did the Supreme Court Waffle on the Return of the Unjustly Imprisoned Man from Maryland?
- Wisconsin: State Chief Jill Underly Rejects Secretary McMahon’s Anti-DEI Demand
- Bloomberg News: About 90% of Men Deported to Salvador Prison Were Not Criminals
- Trump Goes After Two Critics, and His Attorney General Will Help His Vendetta
- The New York Times: Trump Is Swinging a Wrecking Ball at the U.S. Government and the Global Economy
- Wellesley Lecture Postponed Due to Faculty Strike. Stay Tuned.
- Dr. Azar Nafisi, Celebrated Author, Will Speak at Wellesley College on April 15. Save the Date!
- Trump Declares All State Environmental Laws to be Null and Void
- Conservative “National Review” Blasts Trump Tariffs
- Trump Targets Two Critics, Accuses Them of Treason
- Rex Huppke: Trump Never Backs Down..Until He Does
- Washington Post: Social Security Facing Chaos After DOGE Cuts
- Rex Huppke: Trump Golfs While His Tariffs Destroy the Global Economy
- Former Director of USAID: Millions Will Die Because of Musk’s Chainsaw
- North Carolina Continues to Downgrade Its Public Schools
- Vermont: State Commissioner Backtracks on Complying with Federal Demand to Cancel DEI in Schools
- Jennifer Berkshire: What’s Behind the Republican War on Education? Part 2.
- Jennifer Berkshire: What’s Behind the Republican War Against Education: Part 1.
- Tim Walz Was the Highlight of the Best NPE Conference Ever
- A European View of Trump
- Ian Millhiser: Trump’s Attacks on Law Firms Are Outrageous and Arrogant
- Gary Legum: Elon Musk Is Screwing Up Social Security
- Washington Post: Trump and RFK Jr. Are Destroying Public Health Agencies
- Of Course, Trump Wants a Third Term!
- Andrew Tobias: Trump Unleashes Chaos on the World
- New York Will Not Comply with Trump’s Ban on DEI
- Olga Lautman: Trump Cancels Efforts to Save Kidnapped Children of Ukraine
- A Message to Journalists: Don’t Be Fooled! Follow the Money!
- Watch This Surprising Performance at the Kennedy Center!!
- Join the Rally to Save Texas Schools on April 5
- Immigrant Women in ICE Detention Endure “Hell on Earth”
- Arizona: Why Does a Low-Performing Charter School Collect $80 Million a Year from Taxpayers?
- Trump Administration Threatens to Cancel Funding to Public Schools with DEI
- Scott Maxwell: Florida Replaces Immigrant Labor with Child Labor
- Glenn Kessler Fact-Checks Trump on Tariffs
- Trump’s Tariffs: A Global Mess?
- Chicago: Teachers Union Wins Landmark Agreement with School Board
- Trump Wants to Control How Americans Vote
- DOGE Aims to Privatize Federal Government Functions
- Michael R. Bloomberg: Kids Are Spending Too Much Time on Laptops
- Trump Demands Nebraska Change Name of State Capitol!
- DOGE Creates Chaos and Fear at HHS
- How a Democrat Won as Governor in North Carolina
- Dana Milbank: Trump & Musk vs. The U.S. Constitution
- The Greatest Hoax in Sports History?
March 2025
- An Update on Downsizing of Federal Workforce
- Catherine Rampell: DOGE Is Making Government “Comically Inefficient”
- Texas: Beware of Vouchers!
- Are Trees “WOKE”? Are They Infected with DEI?
- Peter Greene: Arkansas Legislators Go Berserk Over Trans Students
- CDC Downplays Importance of Vaccines, Reflecting Malign Influence of RFK Jr.
- Top Vaccine Official Resigns to Protest RFK Jr.’s “Lies and Misinformation”
- Der Spiegel: Personal Data of Top U.S. Officials is on the Web
- New York: Judge Rules that NYC Should Not Pay Inflated Rent of Charter School
- John Thompson: Why is Robert Pondiscio So Angry?
- Trump Assigns Task of Revising the Nation’s History to Vance
- Trump Announces Ban on Labor Unions in Federal Workforce
- Trump Takes Control of the Smithsonian
- Audrey Watters: The Dangerous Politics of Ed-Tech
- Three Prominent Professors Leave Yale for Canada
- John Connelly: Trump Never Learned the Lesson of Chamberlain at Munich
- ICE Grabs Turkish Ph.D Student at Tufts and Detains Her in Louisiana
- Trump Administration Cuts Funding for Vaccines for World’s Poorest Nations
- Stephen Dyer: Vouchers in Ohio Subsidize 91% of Students in Private Schools
- Washington Post: DOGE Cuts Plunge Social Security into Chaos
- Peter Greene: Why the Department of Education Matters
- The SignalGate Scandal, the Lies, and the Text Messages
- Thomas Ultican: There Was No “Mississippi Miracle”
- Thom Hartmann: In Trump’s America, ICE Can Detain Anyone–Even You–Without Cause or a Hearing
- Rep. Rosa DeLauro: Trump and Musk Want to Fire Nearly 300,000 Teachers
- Heather Cox Richardson Sums Up the Trump Clown Car Fiasco
- Hillary Clinton “Baffled” by Top-Secret Leak of War Plans
- Jeff Tiedrich: What’s Going on with National Security, Pete?
- Refugees in Bangladesh Will Die of Starvation Due to U.S. Budget Cuts in Foreign Aid
- How Many Will Die Because Trump and Musk Ended Foreign Aid?
- Why So Much Trump on This Blog?
- Dana Milbank: Trump’s War on Freedom of the Press
- Carol Kocivar: It’s Time to Talk to Your Child About Threats to Democracy
- Thomas Friedman Does Not Believe a Single Word from Trump or Putin about Ukraine. Why?
- Blame Musk: Why Tesla is in Big Trouble
- The Trouble with Tesla
- Hundreds of Jewish Academics Protest Trump’s Claim of “Fighting Anti-Semitism” to Attack Universities
- Jay Kuo Explains What Happened When a Federal Judge Slapped Down Musk and DOGE
- GOP Wants to Honor Trump Right Now!
- Robert Kuttner: Trump and the Politics of Cruelty
- Marc Elias Writes to Elon Musk
- Family Members of Deported Venezuelans Say They Had No Gang Ties
- Trump Fires Democratic Members of “Independent” Boards
- Tom Ultican: An Important New Book by Katherine Stewart
- Olga Lautman: Trump’s War on Dissent
- Chris Tomlinson: Making Texas a Christian State
- Mark Zuckerberg Abandons Fact-Checking on Facebook
- Thom Hartmann: Why Are We Crowdfunding Cancer Care and Research, While Billionaires Flourish?
- Julie Vassilatos: Why Trump Wants to Kill the Education Department
- ALERT! Teachers College Faculty Opposes Trump Attacks on Higher Education and DEI
- Viktor Kravchuk: A Ceasefire of Shame
- Can You Trust Government Data Anymore? NO!
- Michael Hiltzik: Trump Is Coming for Your Social Security
- Joyce Vance: DOGE Is Gutting the National Weather Service, Which Serves All of Us
- Federal Judge Orders Halt to Dismantling of USAID by DOGE
- Talking Points Memo: The Trump Administration Defies the Law
- Sherrilyn Ifill: Do Not Be Silent!
- Texas Observer: The Great Voucher Hoax
- This Charter School Superintendent in Texas Is Paid $870,000 a Year to Run a District with 1,000 Students
- Trump Wipes Out NCES in Department of Education
- Trump Shutters “Voice of America”
- Talking Points Memo: Trump Bullies Columbia University
- Arlington National Cemetery Censors Links and Study Guides to “Notable Graves” of Blacks, Hispanics, Women
- Why Does Trump Want to Destroy America’s Biomedical Research Institutions?
- Jeff Tiedrich: Madman Unleashes Lunatic Attack Before Irish Prime Minister
- A Demonstration of the Use of Trump’s Banned Words List
- How Trump Promoted the Civil Rights of White Christians, America’s Most “Persecuted” Majority
- Corruption Unlimited, Sponsored by the Trump Administration
- The Funniest Comment of Today
- Trump Cuts School Program to Buy Food from Local Farmers
- Washington Post: New White House Strategy: Promote Trump as “King”
- Jan Resseger: Will the Trump Gang Succeed in Demonizing the Words “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”?
- Trump Speaks at DOJ, Urges Imprisonment of His Political Foes
- Josh Cowen: Michigan Doesn’t Want Vouchers, But Trump May Impose Them
- The Collapse of Democracy in the USA: A Chilling View from France
- Heather Cox Richardson: Elon Musk Is Pillaging Our Government
- Quick: What’s the Purpose of the EPA?
- Robert Kennedy Blames Child’s Measles Death on Poor Nutrition and Exercise, Not Lack of Vaccination
- Bill Kristol: Trump Betrays Ukraine and Our Ideals
- Trump is Terminating the U.S. Department of Education Without Congressional Authorization
- Trump’s Crackdown on Academic Freedom Endangers Universities, Faculty, and Students
- CNN: Trump Wasted Billions of Gallons of Water in PR Stunt in California
- Want to Dine with Trump Alone? You May, for $5 Million
- Timothy Snyder: A Critique of Jeff Bezos’ Editorial Limits at The Washington Post
- ProPublica: DOGE Cuts to the IRS Will Cost the Government Money, Not Save It
- Trump Shrugs at Stock Market Collapse, Sells Teslas at White House
- Trump Plans to Spend Billions for Vouchers, Mostly for Religious Schools
- John Thompson: We Must Revive Civics Education
- Thom Hartmann: The GOP Plan to Cut Social Security
- Trump Punishes Two Law Firms that Crossed Him
- Trump Team Sows Disruption, Fear at NIH
- Trump Removes Human Resource Officers, Will Replace Them with Loyalists
- “We Were the Efficiency Team, and DOGE Fired Us!”
- Robert Hubbell: Never Give Up! Now is the Time to Resist!
- Peter Greene: DeSantis Wants More School Shootings, More Death
- Heather Cox Richardson: Bloody Sunday and Voting Rights
- New Zealand Diplomat Fired for Speaking Truth About Trump
- Defense Department Begins Purge of DEI Images, Including Airplane That Dropped First Atomic Bomb
- Trump’s List of Banned Words: It’s Worse Than You Thought!
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Cozies Up to Putin, Allows Musk to Take Over Role of Congress
- Ezra Klein: What Does Elon Musk Want? Who Is He?
- Washington Post Fact-Checker: Trump’s Lexicon of Lies
- House of Representatives Censures Rep. Al Green for Disrupting Trump Speech
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat: How Trump Is Helping Putin
- Trump and Musk Rescind List of Federal Properties for Sale
- Mona Charen: Trump’s Spineless Enablers
- ProPublica: How Many Children Will Die Because Elon Musk “Deleted” USAID?
- Senator Elissa Slotkin Responds to Trump Speech
- Julian Vasquez Heilig: How to Respond to the Department of Education DEI Tipline!
- Trolls Flood ED DEI Tip Line with Hilarious Spoofs
- If You See DEI, Report it to the U.S. Department of Education!
- Dana Milbank: Trump Proclaimed that He Is the Greatest President in History
- Greg Olear: What Democrats Should Do Tonight
- Zelensky Offers Ceasefire Plan, Praises Trump Effusively
- U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon on the “Final Mission”
- Dr. Paul Offit: RFK Jr. Is Still a Vaccine Denier
- DOGE Tackles the Social Security Administration
- My Article on the Plot to Sell Out Our Public Schools
- Ed Department Backs Down on Some Extreme DEI Bans
- Fact-Checking Trump Lies About the USAID “Consultant” Who Was Paid $520 Million
- Timothy Snyder: Trump Unleashes Chaos on the World by Defending Russia
- Erin Reed: “First They Came for the Trans People…”
- SNL Parodies the White House Fiasco
- ProPublica: A Handy Guide to Segregation Academies
- Thom Hartmann: Why Does the Media Ignore Nazi Symbolism at Trump-Musk Events?
- How Elon Musk Took Control of the Federal Government
- Our Allies Speak Up in Support of Ukraine
- The Trump-Putin New World Order
- Dan Rather: Trump and Vance Disgraced Our Country
- Paul Cobaugh: Trump and Vance Are Traitors
- PBS: Brooks and Capehart on the White House Debacle
February 2025
- Trump Rages Against Zelensky in White House Meeting, Ends Talks with No Deal, Blames Zelensky
- A New Partner in the Fight to Save Public Schools!
- ProPublica: Mike Johnson Shares Home with a Far-Right Pastor Who Has a Political Agenda
- Musk Takes a Chainsaw to the Federal Workforce and Creates Chaos
- Climate Change is on the Chopping Block
- Jeff Bryant: Linda McMahon’s Gaslighting of Democratic Senators Was “Elegant”
- Jeff Bezos Tells Opinion Writers What to Write
- Arkansas: A Brief, Powerful Demonstration of Critical Race Theory
- SCIENCE: Ex-Trump Official Warns that Canceled Contracts Will Harm Efforts to Improve Education
- Florida: “Support Our Schools” Fights for Public Schools in Sarasota
- Julian Vasquez Heilig: Higher Education and “The White Flag of Cowardice”
- Trump-Appointed Judge Okays Firing of USAID Workers, Gutting Foreign Aid
- Paul Cobaugh: Patriots Don’t Support Coups!
- Robert Hubbell: The Tide Is Turning Against Trump and Musk
- Trump Places MAGA Zealot as #2 at the FBI
- U.S. Votes with Russia, Iran, and North Korea at UN, PLUS Judge Refuses to Restore AP to White House Press Events
- Protest #Tesla, Protest #Musk
- James Taylor Writes Lyrics About Ukraine
- Editorial: Trump’s Terrifying Reign
- Trump and the Governor of Maine Clash Over Transgender Women in Sports
- A Hero of Our Age: The Man Who Refused to Run Away
- Ugh! A New Rightwing “Reform” Group Is Targeting School Boards
- JD Vance Dishonored Our Troops!
- Youngest Member of DOGE Team is a Grandson of Soviet Spy
- Michelle H. Davis: Texas GOP Insults Teachers, Unions, and Fellow Citizens
- Federal Judge Blocks Trump Ban on DEI
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump’s Policies Are Eroding His Poll Numbers, as Well as the Rule of Law
- AP Sues Trump for Punishing It for Refusing to Use “Gulf of America”
- How JD Vance Disgraced Himself–and His Country–in Munich
- I Sound Off on the GOP Campaign to Destroy Public Schools
- Jess Piper: Don’t Let Them Kill Section 504
- Thom Hartmann: Does Putin Own Trump?
- Mercedes Schneider: In Louisiana, Getting Vaccinated is Now a “Personal Choice”
- My Article on the Trump Agenda for Education
- Timothy Snyder: Trump is a “Weak Strongman”
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Embraces Russia
- Trump Snubs Europe, Insults Ukraine, Joins Forces with Putin
- Julian Vasquez Heilig: Hands Off Efforts to Help Minority Students Succeed in College!
- How Elon Musk Is Profiting As He Tears Apart the Federal Government
- What You Need to Know about Trump’s Plan to Close the Department of Education
- John Thompson: The Struggle Aming Republicans in Oklahoma
- James Fallows: “Defund the Air Traffic Controllers”
- Washington Post Kills Ad Calling on Trump to Fire Musk
- Louisiana: Vouchers Fail the Students Who Need the Most Help
- Sara Stevenson: Fully Fund Texas Public Schools Instead of Handouts for the Wealthiest
- Karen Attiah: Call the Attack on DEI What It Is: A Rollback of Racial Integration
- ALERT! The Disturbing Background of the Teen in the DOGE Group
- Trump Is Breaking the Law By Banning Teaching About DEI
- A Tribute to Two Black Pioneers in Brooklyn
- Trump Is Destroying Our Country, Putin Benefits
- Keith Barber: Making Sense of Tariffs
- Trump Kisses Putin’s Ring and Betrays Ukraine
- Paul Krugman: The Fantastic Lies of Elon Musk
- Another NY Prosecutor Refuses to Drop Case against Mayor Adams and Resigns
- Governor Tim Walz Will Speak at the Annual Meeting of the Network for Public Education!
- Greg Toppo: Education Researchers “Stunned” by Sudden Cancelled Contracts
- Florida: Vouchers Are Helping Affluent Families Pay Private School Tuition
- NYC: Top Federal Prosecutors Quit to Protest Trump Demand to Drop Charges Against Mayor Adams
- Diseases Eliminated by Science or RFK Jr. or Prayer
- Senate Confirms Dangerous Zealot RFK Jr. to Lead HHS
- Trump Takes Charge of the Kennedy Center
- Orlando Sentinel on Trump’s Gaza Fantasy: Is He Unhinged or Has He Gone Mad?”
- 17 States Are Suing to Abolish Section 504 for People with Disabilities
- Heather Cox Richardson: Which Matters More: Voting Rights or Gun Rights?
- The Teenage DOGE “Expert” with a Checkered Past
- Trump Demands $500 Billion in “Rare Earth” Minerals in Exchange for Supporting Ukraine
- Heather Cox Richardson: Keeping track of Trump’s Assault on the Rule of Law
- Musk DOGE Team Is Ransacking Our Government, Pulling It Apart
- Federal Agencies Censor Words Related to DEI
- DOGE Terminates $900 Million in Contracts at Ed Dept’s Research and Data Unit
- Trump Reiterates His Plan to “Own” Gaza and Turn It into a Resort
- Robert Reich: Plan to Resist Trump’s Tyranny on April 19
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Budget Cuts Will Stifle Cancer Research
- Why Elon Musk’s Family Moved from Canada to South Africa in 1950
- Robert Hubbell: No Doubt About It: It’s a Coup!
- Politico: Is There a Cure for Stupidity?
- Dana Milbank: When You Elect a Felon as President, You Get a Scofflaw
- Heather Cox Richardson: Does the Constitution Matter Anymore?
- MMA Fighter Praises Hitler, Denies Holocaust as Mass Stupidity Epidemic Spreads
- Ezra Klein: Don’t Believe Him
- This Is What a Coup Looks Like
- Musk Conducts a Poll on Whether to Rehire Staffer Who Made Racist Tweets
- California: Trump’s Water Release Didn’t Help Los Angeles or Farmers: A Stunt
- Alaska: Ignore the Lies and Boasts: Charter Schools Are No Better Than Public Schools
- Texas: Public Schools Are Imposing Austerity Measures While State Holds Huge Surplus
- WSJ: Member of Elon Musk’s Elite Team Resigns After Racist Tweets Discovered
- Oliver Darcy: The Media Are Failing to Describe the Danger of the Moment
- Today is the Last Day for Federal Employees to Accept Musk’s “Buyout” Offer
- Trump’s Plan to Redevelop Gaza Reflects His History in Real Estate
- Musk Team Was Not Honest About Their Goal, Wanted to Cut Off Foreign Aid
- Ann Telnaes: Unelected, Egomaniac Elon Musk
- Trump Wants Greenland, Canada, and Now, Gaza?
- Will the FBI Sabotage Trump’s Witch-hunt?
- Wired: The Young Men Who Are Helping Musk Evaluate Federal Programs and Personnel
- Texas: Gov. Abbott Says He Will Accept Nothing Less than Universal Vouchers, for Rich and Poor Alike
- Bill Kristol: This Coup is Worse Than Nixon’s Watergate
- Mercedes Schneider: Elon’s Little Vandals May Have Your Personal Data
- Heather Cox Richardson: Elon Musk is Trampling on Our Constitution
- How FBI Agents Can Protect the FBI
- Alexander Vindman: Elon Musk’s Hostile Takeover of the Federal Government
- Timothy Snyder: Lessons in Destroying a Democracy and How to Resist
- Trump’s Shameless DEI Hoax
- Musk Takes Control of USAID, Calls It “Evil”
- Joyce Vance: The Anti-President And His Coup
- Wall Street Journal: “America’s Dumbest Trade War”
- Umair Haque: America’s Brexit Moment
- Robert Hubbell: Call It What It Is: A Coup
- Diane Ravitch's blog
- Dark Money: Manufacturing Prestige for Rightwing and Fringe Academics
- New Regime Is Dropping CDC Data into Memory Hole
- Trump’s Goal: To Take Complete Control of the Federal Government
January 2025
- Will CBS Defend “60 Minutes” or Will It Pay Off Trump?
- Simon Rosenberg: Trump Is Responsible for Chaos, Mayhem, Disruption
- CBS In Talks with Trump to Settle a Ridiculous lawsuit
- The Christian Case for Separation of Church and State
- Tennessee: Legislature Passes Universal Vouchers, State Will Pay for All Students
- Why Paul Krugman Left The New York Times
- Trump Signs Executive Order Threatening to Punish Schools that Teach About Racism and Gender
- Trump Signs Executive Order Directing Federal Funds to School Choice, Directly Attacking Public Schools
- Jim Acosta Signs Off at CNN
- TIME: RFK Jr. on Vaccines
- Trump Administration Rescinds Funding Freeze
- Trump Appoints Vocal Critic of DEI to Lead Civil Rights Commission
- Heather Cox Richardson: The Facts About Our Blow-Up with Colombia
- Peter Greene: The Ultimate AI School Offers 2 Hours of Instruction Daily!
- Unprecedented: Trump Shuts Down Almost All Federal Funding, But DC Judge Freezes Trump’s Freeze
- Unprecedented: Trump Shuts Down All Federal Funding
- ProPublica: Trump Chooses Lawyer as #2 at EPA Who Opposes EPA Regulations
- Texas: Governor Abbott Has No Mandate for Vouchers
- Greg Palast: Trump Lost Due to GOP Voter Suppression
- This Is Happening in Our Country Today
- John Thompson: Is There Hope For Change in Oklahoma?
- Bill Gates Says It is “Insane” to Allow Elon Musk to Destabilize Politics in Other Countries
- Politifact: Did Governor Newsom Cut the Firefighting Budget?
- Colombia Refuses to Allow U.S. Flights with Immigrants to Land; Trump Responds with a 25% Tariff
- Pete Hegseth’s Un-American Religious Views
- Joel Westheimer: The Gilded Age of Tech Plutocracy
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Fired Inspectors General Illegally. Do Republicans Care?
- Bridgeport Public Schools Defends Immigrant Students
- Scott Maxwell: How Did Matt Gaetz Escape Accountability?
- U.S. Supreme Court Will Decide Case of Oklahoma Religious Charter School: CODE RED!
- A Very Important Letter to Pete Hegseth
- “Dear Mr. Trump: I Love Your Plan for the United States of Canada!”
- The Most Terrifying Article You Will Read This Week or Month
- TIME: Fossil Fuel Billionaires Strike It Rich!
- Trump’s Schedule F Is a Blatant Power Grab
- Texas Adopts Bible-Based Lessons for K-5 Classes
- Daniel Dale of CNN Fact-Checks Trump
- Trump Demands Apology from Bishop Who Asked Him to Emulate Jesus
- Will New Hampshire Undermine Its Public Schools by Expanding Vouchers?
- Mercedes Schneider: Trump Picks Controversial Penny Schwinn as #2 at Ed. Dept.
- Trump Turns Tech Billionaires into Lap Dogs
- 18 States Sue to Block Trump Order to Eliminate “Birthright Citizenship”
- Jeff Tiedrich: Elon Musk’s Nazi Salute
- Jim Stewartson: The Rise of Trump’s Brownshirts and the Death of the Rule of Law
- Media Sanewashes Trump, Fearful of His Vengeance
- AP: Senior Taliban Official Calls for Removing Ban on Women’s Education
- Tennessee: Governor Lee Pushing Vouchers, Despite Cost, Lack of Accountability, and Bigotry
- Ohio Passes Its Own “Don’t Say Gay” Law
- First Day Statement by the White House
- Andy Borowitz: DC Builds Fence to Keep Sexual Predator Away from Public
- Ann Telnaes: It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day!
- Heather Cox Richardson: Remembering a Hero, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
- Trump Launches One More Grift Before Inauguration
- Greg Olear: What Will Save Us
- Paul Krugman: What Do the Billionaires Really Want?
- Andy Borowitz’s Suggestions of What to Watch Instead of the Inauguration
- Heather Cox Richardson: A New Era of Lies and Corruption Begins
- RFK Jr. Tried to Block COVID Vaccines at Height of Pandemic
- Jeff Tiedrich: This Week in Stupid
- Heather Cox Richardson: Republicans Abandoned Democracy to Stay in Power
- New York Times: Critics Insist that ERA Was NOT Passed
- Biden Makes the Equal Rights Amendment Official!
- Jan Resseger: Trump Will Inflict Massive Trauma on Immigrant Children
- Florida: Professors File Federal Lawsuit Against DeSantis’s Anti-DEI Law
- Sherrilyn Ifill: The Truth
- Doktor Zoom: We Are Going to Miss Joe Biden!
- James Fallows: Joe Biden’s Surprising Farewell Address
- 400+ Journalists at “Washington Post” Sign Petition to Bezos
- Canadian Member of Parliament Offers to Take California, Oregon, and Washington State
- A Corporate Lobbyist Will Run Trump’s White House
- Two of Baton Rouge’s Largest Charters Closing as IDEA Chain Fails and Quits
- Jeff Tiedrich: The Nasty Pete Hegseth Clown Show
- Jay Kuo Reports on Pete Hegseth’s Refusal to Answer Questions at His Hearings
- Texas: Moderate Republican Wins as Speaker of the House with Democratic Votes
- The Nation: Linda McMahon’s Very Important Rightwing Think Tank
- “Democracy”: Billionaire Bezos Abjectly Kisses Trump’s Ring
- Jennifer Rubin: Media Discovers that Bidenomics Works!
- Guess Who Will Attend Trump’s Inauguration and Sit on the Platform?
- Heather Cox Richardson: Trump Will Purge Those Who Are Not Loyal to Him
- Jan Resseger: Voucher Leader in Ohio Legislature Says Public Schools Cost Too Much
- ProPublica: Secret Papers Reveal How Ohio Politicians Worked with Religious Allies to Get Vouchers for All
- Jennifer Rubin: Why We Started The Contrarian
- Jennifer Rubin: Why I Resigned from The Washington Post
- Jennifer Rubin Is Leaving the Washington Post
- Jeff Tiedrich: Trump Goes Full-MAGA on L.A. Fires
- As L.A. Fires Destroy Thousands of Homes, Climate Change Deniers Unleash Conspiracy Theories
- Karen Francisco: The Roots of the Charter School Grift in Indiana
- Today is Jeff Bezos’ Birthday
- Autocracy in North Carolina: Who Won the Election for State Supreme Court?
- Editor at Washington Post Defends Killing Cartoon Critical of Bezos
- Write Merrick Garland. Urge Him to Release Jack Smith’s Report, in Full!
- Just Published: My Review of the Trump Education Agenda
- Don’t Be Tricked into Giving Up Your Medicare!
- Dan Rather: Is Jeff Bezos Killing the Washington Post?
- One of America’s Founding Principles at Risk: Freedom of Religion AND Freedom from Religion
- Biden Protects 1 Million Immigrants by Granting Them Temporary Protected Status
- Jeff Tiedrich: Trump Gets Almost What He Deserves
- The Bulwark: Biden Should Release Jack Smith’s Report: All of It
- It’s Official: Trump Is a Convicted Felon!
- Steve Schmidt: Trump’s Insults to Canada Are Disgusting
- The GOP Won the House Thanks to Gerrymandering
- Sherrilyn Ifill: How to Survive in the New Trump Era
- Amazon Pays $40 Million for Documentary About Melania
- Tom Ultican: Join Me at the NPE Conference in Columbus!
- Chris Tomlinson: Jimmy Carter Was a Model for All of Us
- Indianapolis: Privatizers Want to Eliminate Public Schools, Replace Them All with Charter Schools
- Scott Dworkin: Trump’s Unhinged “Press Conference”
- Florida: Trump Plan to Deport TPS Immigrants Will Be a Disaster for the State
- Trump Says He Understands Why Putin Does not Want Ukraine to Join NATO
- Heather Cox Richardson: Biden Strengthens Record on Conservation, Trump Babbles and Threatens Our Allies
- Trump Flunkie Judge Aileen Cannon Blocks Release of Jack Smith Report
- The 500 Richest People in the World Now Have $10 Trillion in Wealth
- Peter Greene: Arizona Squanders Taxpayer $$ By Funding Failure
- ProPublica: If the Future of Education is Arizona, It Is Dreadful
- Never Forget What Trump Said to the Mob He Summoned on Jan 6
- Carol Burris: The End Goal of “School Choice” Is the Death of Public Schools
- Adam Kinzinger: Trump’s Lies About January 6 Are Unacceptable
- January 6, 2021: A Day That Will Live in Infamy
- Do Oligarch-Owned Media Want a Free and Fearless Press?
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- Scott Tomlinson: Texas Voters Are in for a Rude Surprise
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- Suicide Bomber in Las Vegas Positively Identified by Clark County Coroner
- Trump World Is Heading for Chaos
- Michigan: What Are Charter Schools Trying to Hide?
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- Oklahoma’s State Schools Chief Blames Teachers for Terrorism
- Police Identify Driver of Tesla That Exploded at Trump Hotel in Las Vegas
- Jeff Tiedrich: The Origins of the “Immigrant-Did-It” Story
- Brian Stelter: The Rush to Judgment, As Usual, Was Wrong
- Heather Cox Richardson: MAGA Threatens the Ideals of Liberal Democracy
- John Thompson: This Worked in My Classroom
- Jan Resseger: Project 2025 and the Demise of Civil Rights Protections
- Trump Issues Statement on New Orleans Terrorist Attack, Blaming Immigrants, But He Was Wrong
- Happy New Year!!