Dr. Basil Wilson

The resistance to the Affordable Care Act in the United States is a manifestation of how a certain segment of the electorate has been captured by the extreme right.

In the murder trial of Michael Dunn who had summarily executed Jordan Davis for playing loud music, the jurors in question took the position that the issue of bigotry or racism was not raised in their deliberations.

American politics began taking a nasty turn in the post-Reagan years. From the late 1960s, Kevin Phillips, the American historian, had identified trends that he predicted would lead to a Republican majority at the federal level.

The year 2014 marks one hundred years since the beginning of World War 1. That bloody encounter which is remembered as the first modern war fought in trenches, with gas and millions of soldiers dying in the process.

Unsurprisingly, Mayor-elect Bill De Blasio appointed Bill Bratton as his Police Commissioner of New York City.

By Basil Wilson For Carib News
C.L.R. James, the late Caribbean intellectual, was fond of saying that the civil rights movement was the finest movement in American history.