BY DEDRICK ASANTE-MUHAMMAD Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Supreme Court’s latest attempt to mandate colorblindness amidst the reality of deep and widespread racial inequality has dealt another strong blow against affirmative action in higher education. […]
Pramila Jayapal, Israel and the Democratic Party BY ROBERT FANTINA Pramila Jayapal speaking in Seattle, 2015. Photo: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the Democrat from Washington state, set off a small firestorm when she told […]
BY RADHIKA DESAI Photograph Source: David Lienemann – Public Domain The proxy war on Russia is the centre piece of Biden’s foreign policy of uniting the world’s ‘democracies’ against ‘autocracies’, particularly China and Russia. He boasts […]
BY KARL GROSSMAN Image by Ilja Nedilko. With the film Oppenheimer opening in theatres on Friday and being widely heralded by media, and this past Sunday the 78th anniversary noted of the first explosion of a nuclear device, […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: U.S. Embassy and Consulate – CC BY 2.0 The 31 countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are taking their victory laps over the latest expansion of the political-military alliance. The […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Markus Spiske. Republican lawmakers in the US Congress are unabashedly pro-global warming: “Bring it on! We’ve got air conditioners in our cars, offices, and homes… no sweat!” Not one Republican in […]
BY PAUL STREET Image by Patrick Perkins. What the Hell is going on with Red State versus Blue State America – and how should we think about and what we should do about that division? I […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photo by Spc. Jensen Guillory – Public Domain So how many American soldiers fight in Ukraine? The Biden bunch is careful not to reveal or refer to their presence, mercenary or otherwise, but […]
BY MATTHEW HOH Photograph Source: Tiomax80 – CC BY 2.0 At the end of May, just before Pride Month in the US began, Uganda enacted a law allowing for the death penalty for LGTBQ+ people. Uganda, already one of […]
BY DAVID YEARSLEY After Beethoven, few have been the composers named Ludwig. Number two on the list was Ludwig Spohr, reasonably big in his day, though only fourteen years younger than his illustrious predecessor. Spohr’s posthumous […]