By Julia Craven The Washington Post via Getty Images BALTIMORE — “Stunning” was the only word Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) could find to describe one of Charm City’s most poverty-stricken…
Terrance Heath By Terrance Heath House Speaker Paul Ryan condemned Donald Trump’s plan to ban Muslim immigration to the U.S. by saying, “this is not who we are as…
By: Danielle C. Belton Barack Obama is going to be in the history books. This will happen regardless of his critics or his fans, both of which are legion. It…
By V.P. Franklin The article “John Hope Franklin: Race and the Meaning of America” by Harvard University’s Drew Gilpin Faust in the 17 December 2015 issue of the New York…
By Nadia Prupis Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. (Photo: Noticia al Día) Venezuela’s right wing won a majority of seats in the country’s National Assembly on Sunday, signalling a major political…
By Lauren McCauley Demonstrators protest the shooting of Laquan McDonald along the Magnificent Mile in Chicago on Nov. 27, 2015. (Photo: Joshua Lott/Getty Images) Demonstrators protest the shooting of Laquan…
François Hollande on Tuesday became the first president of France to make a formal state visit to Haiti, where bountiful resources and brutal plantation slavery made it the European nation’s…
By Phillip Smith / Alternet blacklivesmatter_0.png The Black Lives Matter movement sprung out of the unjust killings of young black men (Trayvon Martin, Eric Garner, Michael Brown), either at…
by Chris Lehmann America has a curious attachment to the idea of gaudy wealth as the ultimate fount of virtue. Sure, there are a handful of saintly figures in…

Above Photo: Black Lives Matter Minneapolis marches after the shooting by white supremacists. Facebook/Adja Gildersleve. When five protesters were shot by white supremacists in Minneapolis, Minnesota on November 22, my…
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) call on all progressives across the United States to join together in a broad coalition against the rising tide of racist and nativist politics…
By Nat Parry Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, as viewed from the International Space Station. (Photo by Scott Kelly/NASA) With more than 40,000 negotiators…