Dawn Paley is editor of Ojalá, a feminist digital weekly providing reporting and analysis from Latin America.
In this episode of our podcast The Signal, Editor Cyril Mychalejko speaks with Temple University Professor Ralph Young about the history of progressive dissent in the United States.
Editor Cyril Mychalejko speaks with Rann about his book “Resistance Stories from Black History for Kids” and about why we are seeing a war being waged against Black History being taught in K-12 public schools and in colleges and universities across the country.
From July 2021 to June 2023, PEN America recorded 5,894 instances of book bans across 41 states and 247 public school districts. And Pennsylvania was one of the worst states, coming in behind just Florida and Texas.
We dove into Bucks County history, covered the school board wars, examined the growing threat of Christian Nationalism, discussed parenting a trans child, and much more.
This is the last Episode of Season 1 of The Signal. We’ll be back in January 2024.
Learn about the far-right charismatic Christian movement that seeks to seize Dominion over society’s Seven Mountains: family, religion, education, media, entertainment, business, and government.
“The leadership of the Christian Right has for decades been telling us that they want to demolish the public school system and replace it with Christian schools funded by taxpayer dollars,” said Stewart.
I speak with Fordham University School of Law Professor Julie Suk about how to create a legal system free of misogyny in the United States.
In this critical moment in our nation’s history, state courts play an essential role in protecting our rights to vote, to express ourselves and to have access to clean air and pure water.
University of North Georgia’s Matthew Boedy spoke to the Bucks County Beacon about his new book, “The Seven Mountains Mandate,” and how Kirk was part of this movement seeking right-wing Christian dominion over government and society.
On this Democracy Day, I want us to remember: democracy isn’t just something we inherit, it’s something we build — one election, one conversation, one act of civic engagement at a time, writes Bob Harvie.
Because authoritarianism is most visible in hindsight, people often don’t recognize it until it’s too late.
When the truth is unthinkable, we lie to ourselves and one another, writes historian Dr. William Horne.
