Before America had a Constitution, it had pulpits. Pulpits that taught citizens how to think about authority, duty, and the proper limits of government. The ministers later associated with the “Black ...
10.18.2026 Theblaze.com and 1 sites
NEW BALTIMORE, Mich. — A New Baltimore district court judge has ordered Kim Mathers to remain in jail until she is accepted into another inpatient treatment facility, despite her attorney's request th...
10.14.2026 Arcamax.com
For almost a century the media stood as the 'Fourth Estate, ' charged with keeping governments honest by exposing what those in power preferred to hide. It brought a measure of transparency and accoun...
10.19.2026 Onlineopinion.com.au
Last semester, I suspected I had a major issue with the use of generative AI in my survey courses, so I inserted what is known as a “Trojan horse” into the directions for a paper I assigned. As it tur...
10.18.2026 Vcpnewz.com
Twenty-five years ago — as the U. S. prepared to invade Afghanistan — Tom Engelhardt launched this publication as a form of pushback. TomDispatch began as an informal listserv offering commentary and collected articles from the global media to a select group of Tom’s friends and colleagues. A year later, it gained its signature moniker and has been providing “a regular antidote to the mainstream media” ever since. As TomDispatch evolved into a proper publication, it became a stalwart of the inde...
10.18.2026 Theintercept.com
Today, Oct. 18, marks 439 years since Luzon Indios, whom we now know as Filipinos, waded ashore at Morro Bay, Calif. , and set foot on the land that would become the United States. They were on an exp...
10.17.2026 Cpusa.org
Secretary of State Marco Rubio fired back at Sen. Chris Van Hollen after the Maryland Democrat said he regretted voting for Rubio as President Donald Trump’s chief foreign affairs adviser, leading to ...
10.14.2026 Vcpnewz.com
On World Peace Sunday, Downey United Methodist Church (DUMC) welcomed producer Mayumi Maynard and director Naoko Fujimura for a screening of their NHK World-Japan documentary, “Silenced Witness: Nagas...
10.15.2026 Thedowneypatriot.com
In his 1951 treatise, The True Believer, Eric Hoffer saw the fanatical leaders of communist and fascist states—Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler specifically—as fundamentally products of the same cloth, ...
10.16.2026 Commondreams.org
Historian and journalist Frances Stonor Saunders, whose 1999 book exposed Central Intelligence Agency covert funding of the cultural Cold War, died of a brain tumor on August 31 at age sixty. With her landmark 1999 debut, Frances Stonor Saunders sing...
10.16.2026 Time.news