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How to Fight Billionaires’ Control of the Media
Mark Twain famously quipped that everyone always talks about the weather, but no one ever does anything about it. (This was before global warming.) In the same vein, it is common for people to rant...
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Elections in Argentina: A Working Class Perspective
A few days before the October 22 elections in Argentina, almost 90% of the polls indicated that the winner would be Javier Milei, the “insane” candidate of the right—as described by Estela de Carlotto,...
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Who Gets to Be an American? On the Evolution of US Citizenship
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling that Bhagat Singh Thind was ineligible for citizenship. Although he would have been considered “Aryan” or “Caucasian” as an Indian...
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We are Spartacus
Spartacus was a 1960 Hollywood film based on a book written secretly by the blacklisted novelist Howard Fast, and adapted by the screenplay writer Dalton Trumbo, one of the ‘Hollywood 10’ who were...
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Just Heartbeats Away from Theocracy
What does it mean to US democracy that Mike Johnson is Speaker of the House, third in line of succession to be President of the United States of America? Johnson is a fervent believer in the literal...
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Donald Trump Has Serious Plans for the Mass Violations of Civil Rights
If you thought that facing felony trials in multiple jurisdictions or trying to convince voters to make him president again might make Donald Trump tone it down a little, you’re in for a rude...
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Cop City Protest Tear-Gassed as Activists Face “Unprecedented” RICO &...
Protesters in Atlanta held a week of action to stop the construction of the massive $90 million police training complex known as “Cop City” in the Weelaunee Forest. This comes as activists have been...
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Review of “If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution”
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution is a fascinating book that invites the attention of all activists around the world. Building off his work, I suggest refinements that...
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Assessing Protests and Counter Protests
Controversies over protests and counterprotests about actions in the Mideast now rage in communities across the U.S. and particularly, it seems, on college campuses. For example, as of November 15th,...
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The Supreme Court May Be Poised to Kill the Voting Rights Act Once and for All
The Voting Rights Act, which Congress passed to enforce the 15th Amendment, has been targeted by the right wing since it was enacted in 1965. In the last few years, the Supreme Court has weakened the...
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UPenn President Resignation, Gaza & the Weaponization of Antisemitism
University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill voluntarily resigned her position Saturday after a House Education Committee hearing last Tuesday on how colleges have handled antisemitism. Magill...
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Gun Violence is a Reflection of Us All
In the streets of Bogalusa, Louisiana, a sadly familiar scene unfolds—the mournful wail of sirens, the piercing flash of blue lights, and another community shaken by the harsh crack of gunfire. This is...
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Courts Aren’t Impartial or Apolitical. Trump Is Using That to His Advantage.
It’s been almost eight years since I sued then-candidate Donald Trump for inciting violence against protesters at a presidential campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky. Kashiya Nwanguma, a 21-year-old...
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Age of Anxiety… Again!
Students of American history realize that we as a people have experienced quite a few ‘ Ages of National Anxiety’. Looking back but within 110 years or so we know there was national anxiety during...
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The Good News About Democracy in 2023
Over the past few years, states across the country have passed laws that make voting more difficult and elections more vulnerable to partisan interference, and 2023 is no exception. But it is critical...
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Javier Milei’s Shock Therapy Would Be a Disaster for Working-Class Argentinians
Javier Milei became Argentina’s president this month promising “shock therapy” to curb inflation and resolve the country’s foreign debt and currency reserve woes. Last Wednesday, the Argentine public...
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Florida Advocates Collect Enough Signatures to Get Abortion on 2024 Ballot
Floridians Protecting Freedom, a campaign advocating for the inclusion of the right to abortion on the 2024 ballot, has successfully gathered 910,946 verified signatures in favor of the initiative,...
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A Second Trump Term Could Spell Economic Disaster
What could we have to look forward to, or dread, in economic policy if Donald Trump returns to the White House in 2025? The challenge here is separating whatever might germinate in his brain or that of...
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These Men Spent Over 120 Years in Prison—Parole Reform Now!
Less than 15 percent of parole-eligible prisoners serving life sentences in Maryland have been released since 2015. With advocates across the state clamoring for parole reform, Maryland’s legislature...
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Bullying Your Workers and ‘Defending the Brand’
At the start of January I watched the four-part ITV drama Mr Bates vs the Post Office, about the UK Post Office scandal, which may be Britain’s largest ever single miscarriage of justice. I also...
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