No. 89-3, June 2025

Index

• A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR GENERATIONS. (ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA) (anti-transgender people policy)
• A Good Reminder.
• A MEDIA REFORM GIANT WHOSE VOICE WILL BE SORELY MISSED. (COMMENT)
• ANTI-TRANS BILLS ARE ALL THE RAGE. (SMOKING GUN)
• Catullus V.
• CODE RED FOR HIGHER ED. (FIRST THINGS FIRST) (president Donald Trump and academic freedom in American universities)
• Defining a Liberation Movement. (BLAST FROM THE PAST) (Urvashi Vaid)
• FIGHTING AUTHORITARIANISM AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. (MIDDLE AMERICA) (the Community Immigration Law Center and Law Forward)
• FIGHTING BACK AS A TEAM. (EDGE OF SPORTS) (the banning of transgender athletes)
• First Things First.
• For the Animals. (LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)
• For the Children.
• Frontiers of Transphobia. (NO COMMENT) (proposed gender identity law in Texas)
• General Praise.
• HOMETOWN PRIDE. (ON THE LINE) (documentary photographer from Dearborn County, Indiana)
• How Solitary Confinement KILLS: Linked to suicides for decades, the practice remains standard across U.S. prisons and jails.
• I Am with You.
• Land Rights.
• Letters to Dave.
• Liberation from Tyranny. (NO COMMENT) (president Donald Trump's executive order on limitation of water pressure on showerheads)
• MAKING SPACE: Chicago's Brave Space Alliance was established to serve Black trans people. In the Trump era, it welcomes everyone else, too.
• Mary of Palestine. (FIRST-PERSON SINGULAR) (a palestinian woman gave birth amid the war in Gaza)
• Rewarding the Rioters. (NO COMMENT) (proposed financial compensation to rioters who stormed the United States Capitol Building on January 6, 2021)
• Rewriting the Narrative on Public Housing: The history of public housing has been sensationalized for decades--but the new National Public Housing Museum tells a different story.
• SANCTUARY IS GOOD PUBLIC POLICY. (PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES)
• SIGNING HEALTH CARE HOPE AWAY. (PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES) (recent exetutive orders limiting government support to medical research)
• Stories That Must Be Heard: An interview with Palestinian writer and poet Mosab Abu Toha.
• Suddenly, from the Veil.
• The Big Media Game Has Fewer and Fewer Players. (OLIGOPOLY)
• The Guerrilla Feminist. (BOOK EXCERPT) (The Guerrilla Feminist: A Search for Belonging Online & Offline)
• THE ORIGINAL ABORTION BANS: Catholic hospitals have denied lifesaving care to pregnant patients since long before Dobbs--and their presence is expanding.
• The Past, Present, and Future. (Prose to the People: A Celebration of Black Bookstores)
• THE SILENCE OF THE DEMS. (FURTHER COMMENT) (the Democratic Party on president Donald Trump's arms transfer initiatives to Israel)
• Trump Turmoil Remembrance Day. (NO COMMENT)
• Uniformity, Prejudice, and Exclusion. (NO COMMENT) (removing "wokeness" in the United States Department of Defense and diversity, equity, and inclusion at the Arlington National Cemetery)
• Veneer of Normalcy. (Comic)
• Was Blind, But Now I Shoot. (NO COMMENT) (a blind man in Indiana applied for a concealed weapon permit)
• What's His Beef?(NO COMMENT) (lieutenant governor Dan Patrick of Texas wants to rename the "New York strip" steak to "Texas" strip)
• Which Gas?(LETTERS TO THE EDITOR)