
Asian American Michelle Wu is Boston’s first elected mayor who isn’t a white man. While many celebrate the milestone, others lament that all the Black candidates failed. By Tovia Smith,…
Asian American Michelle Wu is Boston’s first elected mayor who isn’t a white man. While many celebrate the milestone, others lament that all the Black candidates failed. By Tovia Smith,…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Black women leaders have been working on this issue of voting rights, calling for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, the Freedom…
By Tim Libretti — Political leaders and pundits throughout the exhausting and chaotically lawless years of Donald Trump’s presidency insistently reminded Americans that ours is a nation of laws, not…
By Wayne Campbell — “After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no State, because the State arose as an instrument to…
The government uses a process called public procurement. A professor of public policy explains how the process works and how it is increasingly used to achieve social goals. By Ana…
By William I. Robinson, Truthout — A log-jam of container ships waiting to dock and unload in Los Angeles ports. Semiconductor shortages generating a backlog of orders around the world…
By Dr. Maulana Karenga — Even though it no longer appears as a major item of interest on the nightly news, the issue and pursuit of reparations remains a critical…
The G20, an exclusive club of mostly wealthy nations, met just before the COP26 in Glasgow and paid little more than lip service to the world’s leading problems, while preserving…
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — Despite rising inflation and legislative drama, some economists are touting the latest jobs numbers as a cause for celebration. And there is good news in…
Conservative intellectuals’ plans to erode liberal democracy are just getting started. By Laura Field, TNR — On Halloween, the second National Conservatism conference, or NatCon II, will kick off in Orlando,…
By Charisse Burden-Stelly — Racialization—one process of regulating, organizing, and subjecting populations through capital and labor—is integral to and endemic in the capitalist world-system. It justifies superexploitation, extreme surplus value extraction, and…
By C.M. Lewis & Tyler Walicek, Truthout — As results were tallied on Tuesday, it became clear that incumbent Buffalo, New York, Mayor Byron Brown’s campaign to restore himself to…