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As 2025 comes to a close, many of us may still be trying to make sense of what we are living through with the second Trump administration. This article offers several distinct but complementary … [Read more...] about THE VISTA: December 2025

The political waters have felt especially choppy in November. The Associated Press provided a series of helpful charts to digest the results of the general elections; and although the government … [Read more...] about THE VISTA: November 2025

During the month of October, we experienced one of the largest mobilizations in US history with the No Kings marches around the country and world; and this article from Harvard’s Crowd Counting … [Read more...] about THE VISTA: October 2025

September has been a particularly frenetic month for all of us as the fight for democracy continues to be waged on several fronts. As Nonprofit AF reminds us, Let’s Try to be Nicer to Ourselves and … [Read more...] about THE VISTA: September 2025

At the beginning of the month, a new report released by Civicus placed the US on its civil society watchlist following sustained attacks on civic freedoms. “Civicus pointed to three major issues … [Read more...] about THE VISTA: August 2025

This month we celebrated the Fourth of July with thousands of people expressing their wishes for the future of our country at an art installation at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History … [Read more...] about THE VISTA: July 2025