BY DEAN BAKER Photograph Source: Gauthier DELECROIX – CC BY 2.0 The media keep telling us that the economy is a losing issue for Democrats. I know that this is the Republicans’ talking point, but that is […]
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photograph Source: Valter Campanato/ABr – CC BY 3.0 br Brazil’s first round of elections, held on October 2, yielded a major victory for the man who held the presidency from 2003 to 2010, Luiz […]
BY CHARLES PIERSON Photograph Source: Felton Davis – CC BY 2.0 Hope for peace in Yemen dimmed on October 2 when a truce between a Saudi-led coalition and Yemen’s Houthi rebels expired without being renewed. The truce had begun […]
BY BRIAN TERRELL Leading up to this protest there was discussion among organizers about the nature of drone operations here at Whiteman Air Force Base. Is this a training facility, or are Reaper drones engaged in […]
BY YOSEF BRODY Poster for the film Riotsville U.S.A. – Fair Use Two new films, Riotsville USA and The Chocolate War, offer valuable insight into mechanisms of economic and racial injustice in the US and West Africa The Chocolate […]
BY TOM ENGELHARDT Photo by Freddy Kearney No one listened better than Studs. For those of you old enough to remember, that’s Studs Terkel, of course. The most notable thing about him in person, though, was this: […]
BY BELLA DEVAAN More than $2 billion dollars. That’s how much dark money eclipsed the 2020 elections, OpenSecrets estimates– an increase of over $1.8 billion from just ten years prior. The 2010 Citizens United v. FEC Supreme […]
BY JONATHAN FELDMAN Early sticker used by the Sweden Democrats with the slogan Bevara Sverige Svenskt (“Keep Sweden Swedish”) – Fair Use The Left’s Loss How did the Swedish Democrats (SD), a party with roots in the […]
BY VIJAY PRASHAD Photograph Source: Voice of America – Public Domain A cycle of protests began in Haiti in July 2018, and—despite the pandemic—has carried on since then. The core reason for the protest in 2018 was that […]
BY GEORGE OCHENSKI Photograph Nathaniel St. Clair The state and nation’s voters are, as usual, deluged by a tidal wave of campaign promises from candidates as the November elections draw near. And as usual, we are […]