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A Compelling Case for Small Town Baseball

The survival of this ecosystem of minor league baseball, like an America that gets along because of shared ideals, is imperiled. He lovingly describes people who rely on baseball for their moral and mental health.

Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline

That vaccines prevent diseases is settled science. For decades, there was a societal understanding that getting vaccinated benefited not only the person who got the shot, but also the broader community, especially babies or people with weakened immune systems, like those in chemotherapy

FEMA moves to end one of its biggest disaster adaptation programs

In an internal FEMA memorandum obtained by Grist, the Trump administration announced its plans to dismantle the Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities program.

Trump Attacks The Smithsonian

With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars

The Serious Dangers of Measles

Measles can cause acute brain damage in two different ways: a direct infection of the brain or inflammation of the brain after infection. These events can have permanent brain damage and impairments such as blindness and hearing loss.

Trump Administration Censors CDC Measles Forecast

During Kennedy’s first week on the job, HHS halted the CDC campaign that encouraged people to get flu shots during a ferocious flu season. On the night that the Trump administration began firing probationary employees across the federal government, some key CDC flu webpages were taken down.

Trump is pushing beyond the limits of immigration law and due process

Before he had a chance to explain, Noriega said, the officers placed him in handcuffs and moved him into a van. It wasn’t until after he’d already been taken to an ICE processing center and waited several hours that officers checked his wallet and realized he is a U.S. citizen.

Trump's Secretary of Commerce Ignores Rural Internet Needs

Plan to prioritize satellite connections over fiber optic could strand rural Americans with worse internet access while increasing the share of funding available to low-earth-orbit satellite companies like SpaceX’s Starlink

Guantánamo Exists to Evade the Rule of Law

Lawless cruelty isn’t new, but it can get worse. Trump’s plan to detain migrants follows a long history of the US locking up vulnerable people at the camp.

Fediverse Offers Hope for Social Media Users

Federated services, otherwise known as “the fediverse,” have been hailed as a network for public communication, dialogue and debate, where ordinary people, not corporations, shape their social spaces, and where advertisers, hate speech and intrusive algorithms are much easier to avoid

Arts Connect City and Country Folk

Using art projects to foster connection and understanding is effective, according to Zabel, because they leave room for nuance and complexity that is often flattened by media narratives.

Democracy Runs on Communication

Democracy challenges us to participate in more ways than simply by voting. It challenges everyone to understand those around us and seek what is in the collective best interest.

Heritage Foundation's Relentless Attacks on USA's Educational Institutions Began 40 Years Ago

40 years ago the Heritage Foundation called for ending federal support for programs it claimed were designed to “turn elementary- and secondary-school classrooms into vehicles for liberal-left social and political change …”

Trump Ending Protections Against Terrorism

Homeland Security cut around $20 million for more than two dozen programs from another wing of DHS, including efforts aimed at stopping terrorist attacks and school shooters.