When Bad Bunny was announced as the Super Bowl halftime performer, critics predicted backlash. He’d be too Spanish. Too political. Not “American” enough. The assumption was that in a country this polarized, cultural borders were fixed — and he stood on the wrong side of them.
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Justice John Roberts, speaking for the majority, rejected the government’s argument that the IEEPA “gives the President power to unilaterally impose unbounded tariffs and change them at will. That view would represent a transformative expansion of the President’s authority over tariff policy.” No President has ever made such a claim, said Roberts. The tariffs “extend beyond the President’s ‘legitimate reach.’”
I learned to respect Bitcoin not from traders or tech executives. I learned from dissidents and from people who lived through economic collapse. For them, Bitcoin was not about getting rich. It was about staying free.
One of the great strengths of our movement is that our leaders do more than inspire young people — they keep the door open for them. The leaders who carried forward the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. understood that movements survive only when the next generation is welcomed in. Leaders like Joseph Lowery, Rev. Orange, Rev. Earl Shinholster, Andrew Young, and many others lived that commitment.
Is that all you got?
This metaphorical title clearly symbolizes our Founding Fathers greatest fears for the viability of America’s democracy as a fledging “republic.” They did everything conceivable to protect and defend democracy. Yet knowing that democracy as a system of governing by men and women is always threaten when integrity and humanity are conceded to a demagogue.
The continued value of Carter G. Woodson’s sociological tour de force “The Mis-Education of the Negro,” first published in 1933, exists because every aspect of the book reveals truth that Black people are confronted in 2026 with the same Centuries-old problem. Once basic education became available for so-called “freed” Black people, a system of exclusion accompanied total immersion in European dominance learning. Blacks learned nothing of Africa or of a place of dignity for themselves in America.
I believe this powerful report was accurate, timely and appropriately titled. Africans in America, Black people are caught up in one of the most dangerous periods in the history of the USA; a moment where, under the umbrella of the MAGA movement, the foundational documents that tenuously bind this imperfect union together are under vicious assault by racist, white supremacist and white nationalist forces.
America’s freight rail network is more than an economic engine. It is a force that shapes daily life in the cities across America where people live, work, raise their families and breathe the air.
America was born 250 years ago in a rebellion against such a brutish king. American patriots fought and died in a revolution promising their descendants that never again would similar abuse by government agents be tolerated. In America, they pledged, on their lives and sacred honor, “Law would be King.”