Michael Kwet / TruthdigApr 17, 2023
In recent years, most large tech corporations have begun pushing anti-racism public relations and touting their donations to Black causes. There is no company more steeped or skilled in this practice than the elder of the group, Microsoft. By deploying fleets of flacks, messaging professionals and hired intellectuals, the company has managed to maintain a pristine image as a “moral leader” of Big Tech, while avoiding and deflecting attention from its deep and sordid history of collaboration with police, prisons, intelligence agencies and militaries. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )
By Rachel Otwell / NPR Illinois and Alex Mierjeski / ProPublicaAug 30, 2019
Campus leaders vow reforms, but many say it’s a long road. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )
Alfred McCoy / TomDispatchDec 3, 2018
As a generation of leaders crowds onto the world stage with its own bold geopolitical visions, it's important to trace the roots of the elusive term "geopolitics." Dig deeper ( 16 Min. Read )
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Paul Von Blum / TruthdigAug 31, 2018
African-American historian Nell Painter's inspiring and captivating memoir tells of her going to art school at age 64 after a brilliant academic career. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
Teodrose Fikre / The Ghion JournalMar 30, 2018
When we glom on to political labels and attach ourselves to partisan ideologies, we allow the establishment to shatter us into encampments. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigFeb 13, 2017
The danger we face does not come, in the end, from Trump and his malignant cabal. It comes from severely weakened and corrupted democratic institutions. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )
By Roslyn Fuller / AlterNetSep 20, 2016
The growth of insecure faculty members in American higher education has consequences that reach far outside the classroom and far beyond the lives of poorly paid teachers. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )
Chris Hedges / TruthdigSep 5, 2016
The late political philosopher Sheldon Wolin explicated the mechanisms of control and manipulation used by the powerful But those who most need to read his work have been left in darkness by an academy that has turned its back on the oppressed and caters to the elites (Pictured, Wolin and James Baldwin, right) The late political philosopher Sheldon Wolin explicated the mechanisms of control and manipulation used by the powerful). Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
Ruth Rosen / TruthdigJul 13, 2016
Anita Hill’s groundbreaking testimony at the 1991 confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas gave women new language for coping with age-old problems. But it didn’t make the problems go away. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )
By Henry A. Giroux / Disrupt(ED)Feb 8, 2016
The spaces of retreat from public life occupy too many institutions of higher education, which have been transformed into dead zones of the imagination mixed with a kind of brutalizing defense of their own decaying postures and search for status and profits. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )
By Deirdre Fulton / Common DreamsDec 9, 2015
Professors from major U.S. institutions agreed to write reports promoting the benefits of CO2—and said they did not need to disclose fossil fuel funding. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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