Join Mehdi and Rev. Black today, live on Substack, to discuss Trump's immigration and free speech crackdowns — and the viral moment Black was targeted by ICE while protesting in Chicago.
Even attending university in the 1960s was a revolutionary and complicated process for Ed Roberts, who was paralyzed by polio in his early teens. Now known as the father of the independent living movement, Roberts—faced with many structural hurdles to moving through society—began pushing as a young man to win disabled people the resources to […]
‘As the storm approached Alaska, everything went sideways,’ leaving people no time to evacuate and little time to prepare. An Alaska meteorologist explains what happened and the challenges ahead.
On Saturday, October 4, Rutgers University professor Mark Bray was sitting in his living room watching the MLB playoffs when he received an email that would change his life. Bray, a historian and author of the 2017 book Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, had recently become the subject of an online campaign accusing him of “supporting […]
“The problem is the export license, huh? For this we can find a…a way.” It was early June and Guenther Rudolph was in an expansive mood. Sharp-suited, relaxed, and charming, he was standing in a booth in Prague’s Clarion Congress Hotel. Every year the Clarion hosts an exclusive gathering: the premier get-together of the surveillance […]