by VIJAY PRASHAD Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair On September 7, 2020, Julian Assange will leave his cell in Belmarsh Prison in London and attend a hearing that will determine his fate. After a long period of […]
by MARTHA ROSENBERG Photograph Source: Hesham Usama Khan – CC BY-SA 4.0 Recently, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued four current or former NRA executives for “illegal financial conduct,” according to NBC. Among the charges were that Wayne […]
BYRimsha Syed, Truthout PART OF THE SERIES The Road to Abolition Muslim groups across Wisconsin and from Washington, D.C., joined together soon after the police-perpetrated shooting of Jacob Blake to issue a joint statement saying, “Yet again, […]
BY: Caroline Preston, The Hechinger Report The calls started at 6 a.m., and Patrick McCauley was ready, having retreated to the privacy of his garage where he sat waiting for Angelenos to share how they’re […]
by ROB URIE Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Ongoing protests against police violence raise the question— if the police could be made to either serve a constructive social role or disappear, would the objectives of the […]
by LOUIS PROYECT Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On August 14th, the N.Y. Times reported on the clash between Adolph Reed Jr. and the Afrosocialists and Socialists of Color Caucus in DSA. The caucus advocates stepped […]
BY: Julia Conley, Common Dreams As law enforcement agencies and lawmakers respond to nationwide outrage over countless police shootings of Black Americans with pledges to address racial profiling and “implicit bias,” the Brennan Center for Justice […]
by: DAVID MATTSON Bear Butte. Photo: David Mattson. I grew up in the Black Hills of western South Dakota on a small ranch roughly 30 miles away from the small city of Sturgis and between 100 […]
by MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Walt Kelly’s Pogo remarked that “We have met the enemy, and he is us.” In terms of election interference, historically the United States has been the enemy abroad […]
by MATTHEW STEVENSON Image Source: Screenshot of PBS cast of the DNC – Free Use I can’t say I was surprised that the Democrats led off their four-day Zoom summer jamboree with one of the Desperate Housewives acting […]