by ERIN L. THOMPSON On August 26, 2020, Alice in Wonderland will get some company. She will be joined in New York City’s Central Park by Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth, the first statues […]
by PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Barack Obama’s speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention – Fair Use Record-Setting Absurdity and Mendacity The malignant fascist sociopath Donald Trump lies so voluminously and absurdly that many Americans will […]
by DAVID SCHULTZ Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The coronavirus pandemic has both changed everything and accelerated trends that were already occurring across the world in business, politics, and how people shop and interact. The same […]
by: SONALI KOLHATKAR President Donald Trump thinks of himself as a champion against human trafficking. He addressed a White House Summit on the issue in January claiming there was a “humanitarian crisis” at the border fomented by criminal […]
BYWilliam Rivers Pitt, Truthout The Los Angeles Times wins the prize for best description of the thing that happened on my TV last night: “Welcome to a parallel universe.” You cannot fully wrap your mind around what took place […]
BYSasha Abramsky, Truthout In the aftermath of the 2008 housing market collapse, I spent many months reporting on the “collateral damage” caused by a systemic failure. I remember going into campgrounds in California’s Central Valley, […]
BY: Shane Burley, Truthout The last three years have been a marked and unending period of decline for the organized “alt-right.” Ostensibly led into a somewhat cohesive social movement by Richard Spencer, the collection of […]
BY: Candice Bernd, Truthout Under a sweltering August sun, just blocks from the U.S.-Mexico border, four local activists busily stage-direct the movements of about 100 residents of Laredo, Texas, who are lined up, fists raised, […]
BY: Julia Conley, Common Dreams Public health experts on Saturday decried the Food and Drug Administration’s “troubling” approval of a Covid-19 treatment which has not been proven to help patients who are severely ill with the disease. […]
Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr BYC.J. Polychroniou, Truthout As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, exposing to the fullest the glaring weakness of our inequitable health system, and as the unemployment situation goes largely unaddressed, it’s becoming […]