Erica Chenoweth explains the 3.5% rule — the finding that nonviolent protest movements have never failed when at least 3.5% of a country's population is engaged.

Amid political attacks and funding cuts, some U.S. students are changing their college and graduate school plans and heading to other countries. We spoke with the incoming class.

Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“

Pete Hegseth isn’t DEI. Daniel Penny isn’t DEI. That’s not what DEI is.

They’re just grossly unqualified for their jobs and add no value that any replacement legacy job applicant wouldn’t bring.

So stop saying “it’s DEI” like it’s a clever commentary on the situation. It’s not.

I saw up close the devastation caused by Hurricane Helene and worked to secure significant resources to help Virginians get back on their feet—including by restoring the Creeper Trail, which is critical to the local economy. heraldcourier.com/news/local/f...

I'm obviously obsessed with this whole thing but want to note that this has been an excellent distillation of why boiling traditional advanced-based publishing down to just "gatekeeping" is erasing the knowledge, expertise, and experience of the legion of folks who labor to "publish" a book.