“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905. From the series Great Ideas of Western Man.
Project 2025, the conservative policy project, became a flashpoint during the presidential campaign. Angelo Carusone of Media Matters studied the 900-page document and spoke with… Read More »Angelo Carusone on tracking Project 2025 and right-wing media
The night before the presentation, she said she got a call from the vice chair of the education department who had raised concerns with the… Read More »Free Speech
Shining a single lantern in the darkness – to warn the country, that tyranny has come by land. https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-18-2025
Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk had already been transferred out of state before a federal judge ordered that she not be removed from Massachusetts, federal… Read More »Due Process?
“We are in an emergency,” Abughazaleh says. “Right now, the answer to authoritarianism isn’t to be quiet. It’s not matching pink outfits at a state… Read More »The Answer to Authoritarianism…
March 23, 2025Heather Cox Richardson Fifteen years ago today, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare, into law.… Read More »Affordable Care Act
https://apnews.com/article/trump-education-department-shutdown-b1d25a2e1bdcd24cfde8ad8b655b9843 Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order… Read More »Dismantling the Department of Education
They swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution, and I expect them to honor their word. Just in case they forgot: The Senators… Read More »“Support and Defend the Constitution”
Did President Trump just support and join with with Russia and North Korea – against Ukraine and Europe? Republican Senator John Curtis said he was… Read More »Trump Supports Russia
US sides with Russia and North Korea in UN resolutions on Ukraine The US has twice sided with Russia in votes at the United Nations… Read More »US Sides with Russia and North Korea