Tensions in the Middle East are on the verge of boiling over, ICE begins targeting churches, National Guard violates the law by detaining civilians, CPB uses predator drones in LA, and much more

Trump’s deployment of the military to intimidate and quell local protests—without a request from the governor—is the first incident of its kind in sixty years. And the conditions that would warrant su...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to respond with force to protesters who gather this coming weekend in opposition to his costly and authoritarian military parade in Washington, D.C.

Ukraine launched a major operation without Trump knowing, massive anti-Trump protests are planned, a celebration of the Pope is on for Trump's birthday, and the FBI is investigating an act of terror

We’re a grassroots community that’s standing up to corruption and voter suppression and building a more representative democracy.

As a lifelong conservative, my turn to activism has given me insights into what we can do to bring others like me into the movement.

Last night a new club opened in the wealthy Georgetown neighborhood in Washington, D.C.

This May there are more than three dozen writing conferences and workshops. Some conferences and workshops will be held online, but most wil...

This May there are more than five dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, CNF, nonfiction, and plays. Prizes range fr...

This May there are more than six dozen calls for submissions. All of these are paying markets, and none charge submission fees. As always, e...

Early yesterday morning, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent three U.S.

An executive order issued by the Trump administration on Friday night, March 14, calls for the elimination of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the nation’s only federal agency for America...

Vice President JD Vance said the cease-fire plan would freeze territory along the current front lines of the Russia-Ukraine conflict and that the U.S. would “walk away” if Ukraine did not agree.

On April 9, 1865, General Robert E.

Stocks were up early today as traders put their hopes in Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s suggestion that the Trump administration was open to negotiations for lowering Trump’s proposed tariffs.

I learned to light the candles, studied the old books, taught my son to recognize the one day of the week, one week of the year when we eat matzo instead of bread and sing of freedom and redemption…

How to get from war to peace

On risks to democracy nobody even thought about

Gandhi famously said, “Civil disobedience therefore becomes a sacred duty when the State has become lawless.”

Borders between one kind of life and another

In a court filing last night, the Director of the Office of Administration in the Trump administration, Joshua Fisher, clarified the government position of billionaire Elon Musk.

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

Impotence and Unfreedom, Together

What’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos

Revised and expanded

In the museum, the Victorian cutting saw shone with its curved jade handle. He asked me to snap a pic, stunned by beauty paired with amputation.

And how to resist it

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Monday it would no longer post on X and would use rival Bluesky instead, becoming the latest organisation to quit a social media platform that some have criticised for its content.

A pandemic is not inevitable, scientists say. But the outbreak has passed worrisome milestones in recent weeks, including cattle that may have been reinfected.

Shortly before midnight last night, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its initial findings from a study it undertook last July when it asked eight large companies to turn over information a...

These L.A. restaurants and coffee shops are staying open to shelter evacuees, offering discounts and, in some cases, free food to evacuees and first responders to the numerous ongoing fires in Souther...