By Ari Berman James Harris walks into his polling place to vote in Ferguson, Missouri, in April 2015. (AP Photo / Jeff Roberson) At the time of Mike Brown’s shooting in Ferguson, Missouri,…
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Recently much attention has been made of President Obama’s “bucket list,” those things he would like to accomplish before the end of his term. Among the items on his list is a visit to Cuba. This would be a dramatic event, climaxing one of the signature achievements of his presidency – breaking the decades- long diplomatic and economic isolation of Cuba to usher in a new era of normalized relations. The site of an American President, the first African American President, being welcomed in Cuba, an Afro-Hispanic nation, would be stunning and historic!
By Stephen Marche You feel your whiteness properly at the American border. Most of the time being white is an absence of problems. The police don’t bother you so you…
Logged In: How the New Economy Makes It Harder Than Ever to Untangle Capitalism From Our Daily Lives
It’s a familiar pattern. First there’s an economic crisis. Then comes an enormous restructuring of capital — and with it a restructuring of labor — throwing past certainties into doubt….
By: Panama Jackson 490040062-president-barack-obama-and-chinese-president-xi-jinping President Barack Obama toasts during a state dinner in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., Sept. 25, 2015. While perusing Facebook a…
In response, the NAACP said they are planning to file a motion with the judge. An Ohio prosecutor has rebuffed a request by the Cleveland branch of the NAACP…
To deal with our impoverished neighborhoods, it isn’t enough to get rid of the guns. The public squalor of our inner cities has to be addressed: schools modernized, affordable housing built, mass transit supplied, available jobs created. Gun control doesn’t cost much. Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness — the dysfunction that comes from poverty.
By Phillip Smith / Alternet An as yet unnamed man killed by police in Rawlins, Wyoming, on December 30, after they were called to a convenience store about a person believed to be selling…
By Syed Mohammad Ali The writer holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and is the author of Development, Poverty and Power in Pakistan, available from Routledge Conspiracy theorists…
By Raj Patel The Studebakers plying up and down Havana’s boardwalk aren’t the best advertisement for dynamism and innovation. But if you want to see what tomorrow’s fossil-fuel-free, climate-change-resilient, high-tech farming…
By Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II speaks to a crowd in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton) In a violent and fragmented society, sometimes…
By Jean H Charles December 28, 2015, marked the 200th anniversary (December 28, 1815) of the visit by Simon Bolivar to Les Cayes, Haiti, seeking assistance from Alexander Petion, president…
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