by: JESSE JACKSON As the worldwide demonstrations continue two weeks after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis policeman, the question is whether outrage will lead to real reforms? Fundamental reforms would begin with ending […]
Where Trump succeeds is in presenting himself as a Christian nationalist, much as Putin and Modi style themselves as the stout defenders of their countries’ dominant religions. by: Laura R. Olson Public opinion polls have […]
America has sunk into a crisis for which Trump and his party have no answers. by: Joel Wendland-Liu As the protests spread to every state and were met with violent police aggression, mass arrests, beatings, […]
“This is suspension of habeas corpus, it is unconstitutional,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. by: Jake Johnson, Police officers arrest protesters for breaking the curfew as they continued to protest demanding an end to police brutality […]
“We’re at the point of saturation. The question is, when is it enough?” by: Eoin Higgins, A protester holds a sign outside City Hall reading ‘Enough’ during a peaceful demonstration over George Floyd’s death on […]
“A truly stunning level of tone-deafness.” by: Eoin Higgins, Ronald Scott, a central neighborhood resident for more than 10 years, takes a photo of the memorial mural over flowers and banners laid in the memory […]
“So is 57 officers resigning at once just a few bad apples?” by: Eoin Higgins, staff writer Police officers in Buffalo, New York walk by the motionless body of 75-year-old Martin Gugino as he bleeds […]
“We won’t stop fighting until justice is served.” by: Julia Conley, A demonstrator holds a sign with the image of Breonna Taylor, a black woman who was fatally shot by Louisville Metro Police Department officers, […]
by: JEFFERSON MORLEY Photograph Source: Frypie – CC BY-SA 4.0 The zone of incomprehension was about a foot wide. That was the distance separating a boisterous but peaceful crowd of several hundred protesters and a silent line […]
by: PETER LINEBAUGH Albion Rose by William Blake. Benjamin Bowsey, John Glover, and the Delivery of Newgate, 6 June 1780 We might say that there were two ways of understanding broad, social phenomena including whole social systems. […]