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From the column: "In Duluth, we're becoming more aware every day that our city is not immune. ... More high-temperature records are being broken, and more microplastics are in Lake Superior."

Legal experts worry the “doubling down” on demonstrators who are opposed to the planned giant police training facility could undermine the right to protest.

Dan Fischer analyzes the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, its roots in the Black Power movements and anarchist inspirations.

Among the weeks headlines: a new report explores the post-pandemic funding landscape for libraries, a library board shuts down a library-hosted book group for discussing a political book, and more.

Klamath County Commissioners have canceled a library-sponsored book group over what some are calling censorship. That decision could have ramifications across the library district’s programming.

NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — The Berkshires in recent years have been working to create a safe environment so people can be who they are and feel welcomed.   Transgender Day of...

A cartoonist illustrates police union leaders’ statements, in their own words.

Huge demonstrations and strong public sentiment against police brutality are not enough.

Organizers across the country are deploying a multitude of tools to help people imagine and enact a vision for the world we are building, using community surveys, participatory budgeting and People’s Movement Assemblies.

The demand to “defund the police” asks politicians to go beyond platitudes and actually end the violence of policing, shifting resources in ways that promote the redistribution of wealth.