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MAGA political energy across the country, and yet the most recent Quinnipiac University poll found that 53 percent of ...
I am sorry that circumstances prevent me being with you today, to join again in the voices of protest raised against the actions of the Burnham Government with respect to Walter Rodney. But I am ...
Less known is that for many years he also taught political theory. It might come as something of a surprise that among his favorite works is John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. This might come as a ...
Letter to the Editor: “Small Wasn’t Beautiful” “Ethical consumption” and “small is beautiful” were never dominant ideas on the left.
October 26, 2022 The philosophers have merely interpreted the white race; the point, however, is to abolish it. How can this be done? The last time I saw Noel Ignatiev was a few weeks before his death ...
In fact, though, the U.S. right wing has long cultivated ties with Russia. Some of these are self-evident quid-pro-quo affairs: The “sweeping and systematic” campaigns of election interference ...
April 19, 2022 Nearly every activist I encounter these days identifies as an abolitionist. To be sure, movements to abolish prisons and police have been around for decades, popularizing the idea that ...
Second, Trump is symptom, not cause, of the “crisis of democracy.” Trump did not turn the nation in a hard-right direction, and if the liberal political establishment doesn’t ask what wind he caught ...
In the late summer of 1992, when Buchanan spoke, we had been in the United States for a decade. My parents, new citizens, had done the remarkable. That year through some uncanny frugality, my mother’s ...
The political dimension of that lie matters. Police mendacity is not merely a problem of “bad apples” or individual interests. Instead, lying is an avenue for police to invest in a collective interest ...
James was born Selma Deitch in 1930 to a movement family in Brooklyn and was profoundly shaped by the radical politics of the ’30s. When she was barely a teenager, her older sister began taking her to ...
February 03, 2022 The clinic was open once a week. It saw patients in a borrowed space near enough that I could walk to it, even on a bad day. Walking slow in my cognitive fog, only once did I have to ...