We cannot ignore the ugliness of the status quo, with fear driving people apart, books being banned, and teachers training for active shooter drills. We need to keep fighting to protect public education.
Because right-wing politicians see public schools as the last best hope of an inclusive multiracial, multiethnic democracy, they’ve decided to create chaos, promote vouchers for the rich, and destabilize communities.
Reason and common sense are guiding decisions again as the school board turns to teachers and administrators – not right-wing Christian groups or Moms for Liberty – to regulate classrooms and school policy.
Patel has vowed to sever the FBI’s intelligence-gathering activities from the rest of its mission and said he would “shut down” the bureau’s headquarters building on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., and “reopen it the next day as a museum of the ‘deep state.’”
Editor Cyril Mychalejko speaks with Noll, co-author with Jon Michaels of the new book “VIGILANTE NATION: How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy.”
It’s not because physically providing adequate housing is all that tough, but because dedicating the resources necessary to care for our neighbors has proven damned near impossible, writes Pat LaMarche.
