
By Jeremy Daw For the superstitious, Friday the 13th is a day fraught with bad luck. For Sarah Furay, that day came a week early and was Friday, November 6th….
By Jeremy Daw For the superstitious, Friday the 13th is a day fraught with bad luck. For Sarah Furay, that day came a week early and was Friday, November 6th….
By Matt Pearce Above photo: Demonstrators hold a “die-in” on North Michigan Avenue in Chicago. The “Black Christmas” demonstration on Thursday, organizers said, was held to protest the killing of…
Decriminalization of marijuana is a racial justice issue. According to statistics from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in 2003, Black youth were 3.7 times more likely to…
By Joan Walsh In a broad and fascinating end-of-year NPR interview, President Obama accused Donald Trump of “exploiting” the fears of “blue-collar men.” Now the right is shrieking that he’s playing “the…
BY JESSE JACKSON December 22, 2015 This week we celebrate Christmas — the mass celebrating the birth of Jesus the Christ — the Messenger. Across a country shaken by terrorism,…
By Peter Beinart Over roughly the past 18 months, the following events have transfixed the nation. In July 2014, Eric Garner, an African American man reportedly selling loose cigarettes illegally,…
By Frank Joyce The future of life on the planet depends on bringing the 500-year rampage of the white man to a halt. For five centuries his ever more destructive…
By Mark Weisbrot Venezuela’s opposition has won a large majority of the country’s legislature, or National Assembly, for the first time in 16 years. Many observers in Washington see this as…
By David Morris Early this year President Obama spoke before the Cleveland Club. After the speech, seventh-grader Alura Winfrey inquired, “If you could go back to the first day of your…
By Justin Gardner In 1991, a neo-Nazi white supremacist gang was terrorizing the streets of Lynwood in Los Angeles County. The reason these violent thugs could run amok was because they…
By Phillip Smith The omnibus spending bill approved by Congress this morning includes several drug reform provisions, although reformers didn’t get everything they wanted. The bill includes language blocking the Justice…
By Adam Johnson CNN’s debate Tuesday night was billed as a debate focusing on national security, foreign policy and terrorism. As CNN‘s Wolf Blitzer said as he introduced the questioning: • •…