My mother and Anne Frank were childhood playmates. What if they had been able to grow up together?

By Scott Gilbert | Between Trump’s Nuremberg-style rallies, and antisemitic and white supremacist mass murders from Pittsburgh to El Paso, I hear the slogans and chants that led to the Holocaust: “shithole countries” — “they’re bringing crime, they’re bringing rapists” — “infest our country” — “invasion” — “vermin” — “these aren’t people, these are animals” […]

Real Change Is Hard Work: Thoughts on the #OutNow Protests

By Eric Gmeinder |  I’ve studied the far right enough to know they want me dead because of my sexuality and erased at best because of my disability. I may be relatively safe in California, which has long taken a liberal-leftist direction under states’ rights, but for how much longer with the specter of indictments […]

We Must Demand Trump Pence #OutNow or Fear Losing Our Humanity

By Lillian Forman |  This regime will do whatever we let them get away with. The Democrats haven’t stopped them from crimes against humanity or assaults on our constitutional rights. They seem interested only in protecting the parts of our political system in which they have a stake. Therefore, we, the ordinary citizens of the […]