BY JUDY ROHRER Ironwoods at Kailua Beach Park, photo by Judy Rhorer. We got off the plane from California and headed to the windward side of O’ahu. We immediately took off our shoes, changed into shorts, […]
BY SONALI KOLHATKAR Photograph Source: Mike Mozart – CC BY 2.0 There was a big lie that modern corporations sold to American workers in the late 20th century and into the first decade of the 21st century: […]
BY PATRICK MAZZA Photograph Source: Ende Gelände – CC BY-SA 2.0 The world system we know today was born in a time roughly from the mid-14th to mid-17th centuries. We understand them as a time when the […]
BY PATRICK COCKBURN Photograph Source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-B24543 – CC BY-SA 3.0 de I often think at this time of year about what would have happened if Hitler had ordered the invasion of Britain in the summer […]
BY BINOY KAMPMARK Myanmar security forces member near burnt down houses. Photograph Source: Steve Sandford (VOA) – Public Domain The indomitable spirit of Raphael Lemkin, bibliophile, assiduous documenter of humanity’s dark deeds and inexecrable conduct, is […]
BY THEIA CHATELLE Image by Jon Tyson. Tenants in New York City are having a difficult time finding a place to live. In May 2022, the median rent in Manhattan reached $4,000. And other boroughs aren’t faring any […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Statistics lie. Some lie more than others. The ones regarding unemployment lie brazenly and have done so for years, erasing the very existence of the long-term unemployed by […]
BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: U.S. Embassy Jerusalem – CC BY 2.0 President Joe Biden initially picked much of the low-hanging fruit from the misery of the Trump years. He revived the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) […]
BY PAUL STREET Image by Joshua Sukoff. I shoulda quit you, long time agoI shoulda quit you, long time agoThen I wouldn’t be hereDown on this killing floor – Chester Burnett, aka Howlin’ Wolf, “Down on the […]
BY HENRY GIROUX Photograph Source: Matt Johnson – CC BY 2.0 I consider the survival of National Socialism within democracy to be potentially more menacing than the survival of fascist tendencies against democracy. –Theodor Adorno 1959 DeSantis’s View of Education as […]