Culture
Looking Backward to Move Forward: Feminism Is the Path Toward Liberation
A Review of Joanna Scutts’ “Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism.”
Emily French
June 28, 2022
Emily French
Culture
Let’s Bend the Long Arc Toward Justice: A Review of Ibram X. Kendi’s New Book ‘How to Raise an Anti-Racist’
Kendi has some great suggestions for how parents can be intentional in nurturing children to be culturally competent and free from myths of white supremacy.
Emily French
June 18, 2022
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Voices of Gay Liberation: The Impact of the Stonewall Riots
With attacks on LGBTQ communities launched from school boards to state legislatures, now is a good time to read “Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America.”
Emily French
June 15, 2022
Culture
Laboratories of Autocracy: From Harrisburg to Other Statehouses Across the Country
A new book is a clarion call to organize for local elections and issues as passionately as you do for national ones.
Emily French
June 6, 2022
Culture
In Flights for Women’s Rights
Nell McShane Wulfhart recounts what happened with labor and women’s rights in the airline industry, American Airlines, and the Transportation Workers Union in the 1960s.
Emily French
May 24, 2022
PSEA Urges Lawmakers to Pass a Budget to Fund Pennsylvania’s Public Schools, Not Use Students as ‘Bargaining Chips’ to Divert Money to Cyber and Religious Schools
August 27, 2025
“Our kids are not bargaining chips,” PSEA President Aaron Chapin said. “Our kids are not pawns in some grand strategy to enact a tuition voucher scheme that will shift taxpayer dollars away from our public schools and send them to private and religious schools.”
OPINION: Trump’s Troop Deployments in Cities Across the US Are Dress Rehearsals for Nullifying Your Vote
August 27, 2025
“This is about the president of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections,” said Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.
‘Victory for Pennsylvania Voters and Our Democracy’: Court Rules State Must Stop Throwing out Mail Ballots Over Date Errors
August 26, 2025
“Discarding thousands of ballots every election is not a reasonable trade-off in view of the date requirement’s extremely limited and unlikely capacity to detect and deter fraud,” the appeals court panel wrote.
5 Takeaways From DC’s Organized Resistance to Trump’s Military Occupation
August 26, 2025
The city is resisting an occupied force in creative, raucous, and even joyful ways. The rest of the nation should take note.
Pennsylvania Needs an Independent Redistricting Commission to Ensure Fair Representation
August 25, 2025
Partisan gerrymandering is an anathema to our democracy.
