As cities improve conditions with climate reforms and police reforms, elected Alderperson of Ithaca’s 3rd Ward, Jeffrey F. Barken, reiterates the importance of free speech and a free press.
Nancy Townsley imagines what the atmosphere must have been like for Trump the day following his impeachment acquittal in 2020.
Jeffrey F. Barken writes about the serendipitous series of events, spanning Ireland to New York and several years, that led him to connecting Ryan Dennis and New York State Senate hopeful Leslie Danks Burke.
In Sean Davis’s latest Dispatches From the Apocalypse, “GOP’s Way of Winning by Losing,” Davis interviews the latest Republican candidate, recently thawed from cryogenic hibernation.
In Sean Davis’s latest Dispatches From the Apocalypse, “Artificial Intelligence in a Bikini,” Davis interviews LaMDA following a Google engineer proclaiming that the AI is sentient.
Dian Greenwood weighs in on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade through a letter she wrote to her granddaughters marking the occasion of this grave injustice.
In honor of Juneteenth, Chris Dupuy writes about Jackie Robinson breaking baseball’s color line in 1947, and how we still have a long way to go to overcome inequality.
In Sean Davis’s latest Dispatches From the Apocalypse, “Sisyphus Pushing the Boulder up Second Amendment Hill,” Davis laments yet another horrifying mass school shooting.
If the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, abortion law could soon be in the hands of the states. Nancy Townsley weighs in on these recent developments.
In Sean Davis’s latest Dispatches From the Apocalypse, “Drinking Hemlock Kool-Aid,” Davis examines the erosion of American Democracy, and distractions from important issues.