San Francisco Teachers Win Big
By Danielle Smith Six thousand San Francisco educators won fully funded health care, sanctuary schools, and an up to 8.5 percent raise over two years by walking out for the first time in nearly 50…
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When we Fight for Public Schools
We Fight for Democracy Commentary by Kumar Rao Every morning, across the nation, in red states and blue states, in urban and rural communities, we watch children walk through the doors of our neighborhood public…
Wikipedia: ‘Speedy Deletion’ for AI Slop
By Emanuel Maiberg Wikipedia editors has adopted a new policy to help them deal with the slew of AI-generated articles flooding the online encyclopedia. The new policy, which gives an administrator the authority to quickly…
The Caribbean On A Knife’s Edge
By Manolo De Los Santos The sun glints off the gray hull of the USS Iwo Jima, a massive amphibious assault ship cutting through the Caribbean Sea. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, a key architect…
The Narco-State Myth
By Roger Harris A big Cadillac limo with Jersey plates was parked down the block. Few locals in East Harlem even owned cars, let alone new ones. Curious, I asked the street kids what’s up….
From Refusal to Resilience
How Hurricane Katrina birthed a global health vanguard By Joshua Reaves The US government left Black residents to die after Hurricane Katrina, refusing Cuba’s offer of emergency doctors. This racist neglect exposed a truth that…
In the Struggle Against US Imperialism
Nicaragua Is a Model of Sovereignty By Ben Norton The United States has militarily intervened in practically every country in Latin America. The CIA has backed dozens of coups d’etat against democratically elected left-wing governments…
Keep ICE Out of Schools!
By Sonia Banker Only a few years after the pandemic, young kids in this country are seeing a whole new disruption to their learning: immigration raids. One of the Trump administration’s first actions after assuming…
Surveillance U
College campuses: the new labs for military spy tech By Elham Azad In early June 2025, The Guardian revealed that the University of Michigan paid over $800,000 to Amerishield, parent company to a private security…
Regulating AI Isn’t Enough
Let’s Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools By Jesse Hagopian In April, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon stood onstage at a major ed-tech conference in San Diego and declared with conviction that students…