Crystal FitzSimons on SNAP and Public Understanding

What if SNAP weren’t a story about major political party back-and-forthing, and were instead a story about people who need food?

Housing and home ownership represent a critical vector in the project of a multi-racial democracy.

The argument is so specious a third grader could call it out. But if it comes from the Supreme Court majority, we are forced to consider it as serious.

News media need to locate the climate fight in the boardrooms of greedy people perversely trying to wring every last dime from our shared future.

Corporate reporters scratch their heads over how this bombing campaign might be legal, rather than discussing what tools can respond to wildly illegal actions.

We’re in a fight for our right to speak up, and out—but it’s not the first time.

Major media suggest we use something other than our own eyes and judgment and humanity to assess the Gaza situation, and how to act in the face of it.

Something so vaguely named as a “data center” is actually a physical thing in real neighborhoods affecting real people.

Witness testimony is how we can resist official testimony about people "resisting arrest." And you can tell how much it matters by the efforts to shut it down.

Can the Trump administration, or any administration, declare people guilty and summarily kill them based on that declaration?