Nikita Redkar is ‘yassifying’ the news so you’ll pay attention
The popular TikTok comic explains how world leaders are like ‘mean girls’ and why laughing at them creates solidarity. BY FRANKIE HUANG MARCH 27, 2025 Social media creator Nikita Redkar’s…
This class uses museums to show law students the high art of curating ideas
Patrick Barry, University of Michigan Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching. Title of course: Art and Advocacy What prompted the idea…
“Parasite” Director’s New Sci-Fi Film Holds Up a Mirror to Life Under Trump
Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17” is both a critique of gangster capitalism and an argument in favor of proletarian revolution. By Tim Brinkhof , This story was originally published by TRUTHOUT…
Of Pears and Kings
By Patricia Mainardi Images have long provided a means of protesting political regimes bent on censoring language. In the 1830s a band of French caricaturists, led by Charles Philipon, weaponized…
Interview: Did Scientists and the Media Get Covid All Wrong?
March 7, 2025 by Sara Talpos In March and April of 2020, more than 50,000 people in the United States died from the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. Doctors were forced to…
Extended Interview: Mark Graham on Internet Archive’s Work Preserving the Web as Gov’t Sites Go Dark
Extended interview with Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. He is also part of the End of Term Archive for federal websites. Transcript This is…
Chaos and turmoil are whipping through America, spreading fear in Ohio and across the country
by David DeWitt, Ohio Capital Journal February 21, 2025 Only one month in and the winds of chaos, the fallout of careless destruction, whip across the country, lashing Ohio, spreading…
Gut-wrenching love: What a fresh look at the ‘Good Samaritan’ story says for ethics today
Meghan Sullivan, University of Notre Dame The Bible story of the Good Samaritan is more than a mainstay of Sunday school courses. “Good samaritan” is the catch-all way to describe…
Book Review: The Neurological Roots of ‘Sinful’ Behavior
February 7, 2025 by Emily Cataneo James was in his late 30s and weighed more than 500 pounds when he fell in the bathroom and found himself wedged between the…
Dictator Donald Thinks He’s Invincible; He’s Not
Unless he changes course, he will be brought down by corruption throughout his ranks, plunging polls, resistance by many states, and a Congressional GOP realizing that it is their political…