50-hour filibuster forces more negotiations on GOP-backed initiative petition changes
State Sen. Rick Brattin, a member of the Freedom Caucus, shouts at his Republican colleagues Wednesday during debate on initiative petition changes (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). A 50-hour Democratic filibuster forced…
Congressional panel debates who should foot the bill for rebuilding Baltimore bridge
U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, a Missouri Republican, is chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (photo submitted). Conservative members of Congress at a hearing on Wednesday raised questions about…
DeSantis signs bill erasing the term ‘climate change’ from state law
Excessive heat fueled by climate change contributes to drought, wildfires, crop failures, and impaired human health. Getty Images Quality Journalism for Critical Times Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation (HB…
House sends bill to governor renewing taxes critical to funding Missouri Medicaid
The Missouri House chamber during debate on March 12, 2023 (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). A set of medical provider taxes that fund a large portion of Missouri’s Medicaid program won…
CNN sets first Biden-Trump presidential debate for June 27 in Atlanta
CAPTION: Donald Trump, then president, answers a question as Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee, listens during the second and final presidential debate at Belmont University on Oct. 22, 2020…
The number of births continues to fall, despite abortion bans
In the short term, having fewer births means lower state costs for services such as subsidized day care and public schools at a time when aging baby boomers are straining…
FROM HARLEM TO PALESTINE: GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA
In the early morning of April 30, 2024, we liberated Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. Nearly two weeks earlier, hundreds of people had constructed the Gaza Solidarity Encampment on Butler…
The Job of Consent
In sex as elsewhere, consent is asked to do a lot. It is a kind of moral magic, legal theorist Heidi Hurd has suggested, that makes all kinds of unthinkable…
When It Takes Root in the Heart: A Conversation with Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah’s poems are exquisite yet ungovernable, rebelliously innovative yet attuned to a broad range of traditions. They spoke to me long before I had the pleasure of meeting their…
An American Education: Notes from UATX
A revolution in education! A resuscitation of the university mission! To happen in, of all places, not the pompous old northeast or the debauched West Coast, not New York or…