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What We All Owe Gloria Steinem
Feminist activist Gloria Steinem will long be known for her acute intelligence, courage and wit, and for setting feminist torches alight globally over her six-decade career as a journalist, activist and feminist icon.
Israeli Officials Use Dehumanizing Rhetoric As UN Details War Crimes Against Palestinian Children
A United Nations report meticulously details severe violations committed by Israeli forces against Palestinian children in Gaza as top Israeli officials continually use dehumanizing rhetoric to justify actions constituting war crimes. Pro-Israel advocates dismiss the findings by…
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Thursday, September 3, 2026
Heat index values as high as 103 today, Story Time with Miss Kim, and a very different kind of story time with Viet Thanh Nguyen, his sympathizer and his Portnoyan squids.
Even in Conservative North Dakota, Some Socialist Institutions Thrive
Even in a conservative state like North Dakota, socialist, or interdependent, arrangements are seen as pillars of the community. It’s where helping each other gets a little more formal structure. Whereas before, socialism has largely had a negative stigma associated with it, many…
Quebec Takes Secularism to Extremes
Québec’s Bill 9 redefines state secularism by restricting core religious obligations rather than simple symbols. The law bans college prayer spaces, limits religious school funding, and regulates public worship. By conflating mandatory duties with optional display, the government…
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Tuesday, September 1, 2026
The Bunnell zoning board decides whether to approve a 610-acre garbage dump it would have rather kept secret, the Palm Coast City Council meets this evening, County Commissioner Greg Hansen in his last appearance at the Hammock Community Association meeting, Viet Thanh Nguyen on…
Trump’s Ontario ‘Renaming’ Continues Centuries of Colonial Erasure
Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America mirrors centuries of colonial erasure and imperialistic dominance over native populations. Indigenous place names originally served descriptive geographical purposes. European settlers systematically replaced them to claim ownership…
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Monday, August 31, 2026
Heat index values up to about 102, the Onion's "Birth of a Nation," a documentary we can all unify around, what populism got right a century ago, John Darkow on Canada's message.
El Niño Is More Extreme Now Than in Past 1,000 Years
Temperatures have warmed dramatically across the equatorial Pacific Ocean in 2026, signaling the onset of a strong and potentially historic El Niño. These events can affect weather around the world, and the intensity of recent El Niño events is raising alarm that, as global…
The Daily Cartoon and Live Briefing: Sunday, August 30, 2026
A rainy, thunderStormy Daniels kind of day, DeSantis launders, Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village, George Templeton Strong's Civil War diaries ("the intolerable brag and bluster and indecent arrogance of the South"), a Mozart flute concerto.
How California’s Leadership On Vehicle Emissions Standards Created Cleaner Air For Everyone
California’s aggressive pursuit of vehicle emissions standards since the 1970s revolutionized air quality across the United States. By forcing the adoption of catalytic converters, the state effectively removed lead and billions of tons of pollution from the atmosphere. These…
Lake Ontario? Lake America? Seriously?
President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order renaming Lake Ontario as Lake America during a trade war with Canada. The United States maintains a strict formal process for changing geographic designations. The federal geographic board manages these mapping…