by: JESSE JACKSON Screenshot from video recording of Shooting of Ahmaud Arbery Today there is a national outcry about the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. The public condemnation has forced a belated response. Those accused of his […]
by CHARLES PIERSON Photograph Source: Spc. Hubert Delany, 49th Public Affairs Detachment – Public Domain On May 7, Republicans proved yet again that most of them are perfectly happy allowing President Donald Trump unchecked discretion to […]
by JOHN K. WHITE Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It is hard to see the signal amid the noise in the best of times, but the everyday chatter is especially difficult to comprehend in times of […]
by VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair On April 1, Admiral Philip Davidson—the head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command—told the U.S. Congress that he would like $20 billion to create a robust military cordon that […]
By Lucas Leiroz de Almeida Recently, the number of American ships and planes in the Caribbean Sea has increased exponentially. The most likely hypothesis so far is that there will be an attempt to block Venezuela, […]
The themes the Left should be coalescing around are dismantling rentier capitalism, offering a new income distribution system in which basic income divorced from the performance of labor is the anchor, and reviving all forms […]
Against harassment and bigotry, Asian-American officials are finding ways to care for their communities through this crisis. byJanice Li, Svante Myrick As members of the nonprofit Young Elected Officials Network, which is predominantly made up of people […]
“I’m not upset Paul Manafort was released,” said one criminal justice reform advocate. “As always, I’m upset that people who aren’t rich, white, & connected (nearly everyone of the millions currently caged) aren’t treated with […]
His slaying has become a global embarrassment for whites. But when the camera turns away, the savage injustice that embarrasses us becomes simply business as usual. by: Jesse Jackson People stand six feet apart before […]
The wealthy may be fine with sacrificing the vulnerable, but workers are fighting for the sanctity of human life. byNegin Owliaei As other countries have shown with far more grace, the alternative isn’t shutting down […]