ETHAN LIEBERMAN – Gen Z males elected Trump. He swept the group by 14 percentage points. This was just four years after Biden won that demographic by 25 points, an unheard-of swing. And now, says Lieberman, they are swinging away from Trump in huge numbers. But that’s not, explains our mole in Gen Z world, a swing to Democrats.
Where Is Your Line? Which Side Are You On? (Hint: Silence Is a Decision)
ROB OKUN – What has to happen before you actively push back at a government transforming into authoritarian state before our eyes? Will you show up? Will you raise your voice? Will you find a place in the growing resistance movement?
The Last Bilateral Nuclear Weapons Agreement Has Expired. What Now?
By Winslow Myers In his dense and challenging lectures gathered into a book called “The Courage To Be,” the late theologian Paul Tillich sorted our modern anxieties into three existential buckets: first, the anxiety of fate and death, experienced as dread; second,…
Arresting the witness – Don Lemon, the DOJ, and the chilling of press freedom
GEORGE CASSIDY PAYNE – If journalists can be arrested for documenting protest inside a church, the precedent will not remain confined to sacred spaces. It will travel—to campuses, courtrooms, town halls, and streets—wherever institutions demand insulation from scrutiny. A democracy that punishes witnessing does not preserve order. It preserves power, by erasing those who dare to look.
National Shutdown, Minneapolis Nominated for Nobel Prize and Serbia’s Students Blow Whistles
RIVERA SUN – Much is going on in nonviolence demonstrations and presence. Consider and be inspired.
How to turn extreme weather tragedies into climate victories
CATHY ROGERS and MACIEJ MUSKAT – After an extreme weather event, climate organizers can seize the opportunity to push for tangible policy change.