
By Ben Jealous — I was trained to fight by my grandmother, Mamie Bland Todd. She would often remind me, “Pessimists are right more often, but optimists win more often.”…
By Ben Jealous — I was trained to fight by my grandmother, Mamie Bland Todd. She would often remind me, “Pessimists are right more often, but optimists win more often.”…
Four scholars of race, religion and immigration explain how US refugee and asylum policy has long been racially and religiously discriminatory in practice. By Laura E. Alexander, Jane Hong, Karen…
Why it’s a bad idea to revive a Cold War concept. By Peter Slezkine, Foreign Affairs — The Russian invasion of Ukraine has revived the concept of “the free world.”…
The congresswoman revealed a proposal to make America a member of the International Criminal Court and revoke a Bush-era measure that undermines it. By Akbar Shahid Ahmed, HuffPost — Mounting…
By Hazel Trice Edney — The last two years have underlined what we already knew: the digital divide in America is real and has consequences for millions of Americans. An…
Rather than following the lead of despots like Putin and Xi, Africa should chart its own path. By Tafi Mhaka, Al Jazeera — On March 30, just a day after…
By Rand Wilson and Peter Olney, The Stansbury Forum — Against nearly impossible odds, a new independent union called the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) has won the first NLRB-supervised union certification election…
Republican politicians routinely claim that cities run by Democrats have been experiencing crime waves caused by failed governance, but a new study shows murder rates are actually higher in states…
The world’s largest online retailer is no longer union-free in the U.S., following a remarkable election victory by an independent union. By Dave Jamieson, HuffPost — Amazon warehouse workers on…
By Abigail Weinberg, Mother Jones — Most Americans think it’s time to legalize weed. A whopping 91 percent of our Republic says that marijuana should be allowed for medical use,…
“This is big,” said one economist on the reported tax plan that another called a “landmark proposal” to force the nation’s wealthiest individuals to pay their fair share. By Jon…
The Ongoing Covid Disaster is still with us as the U.S. reaches 1 Million Dead By Margaret Kimberley, LA Progressive — Nothing shows the abject failure of the Joe Biden…