View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Black people are beyond tired to the bone. Our fatigue of playing the citizenship game goes all the way to the marrow.
Black people have remained loyal and patriotic to America for centuries, enduring extreme brutality, an unpredictable existence, and uncertain futures. No matter what we have accomplished,…
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Editorial Board
In a moment when suffering is normalized and poverty is treated as a personal failure rather than a policy choice, books insist on humanity.
It has been a hard year. A loud year. A year marked by cruelty dressed up as policy and indifference framed as realism. Which is precisely…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
This situation is not just a policy issue; it is a matter of life and death that can have severe consequences for working people.
I know it seems like the destructive government shutdown was light-years ago, but the longest shutdown in history ended only about a month ago. There is…
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Guest Commentator
Crass and blunt as his prior comments have been, even “quiet, piggy” somehow takes such rancor to an entirely new level of rudeness. Something that, even for this president, was over the line.
Karoline Leavitt gave a less than suitable response as to what prompted President Trump to flippantly insult a female reporter by calling her a “piggy,” after…
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Guest Commentator
Racially coded messages - welfare queens, crime, forced busing - were widely disseminated by the Reagan campaign, which was also enormously successful in garnering the religious right’s fierce support.
Acerbic acrimonious verbal exchanges that have dominated sizable segments of the conservative right over the past several weeks demonstrate little, if any signs of abating. When…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
When we think of those people who are deported from the U.S., we often have images of undocumented Latinx folks from Mexico and Central America. In reality, many Black people are among those who are deported, and some of them have served in the U.S. military.
Yes, if you can believe it. Hundreds if not thousands of military veterans who are not American citizens have been deported after serving this country. This…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
Columnist
He mocks the hungry, scapegoats the poor, and blames immigrants for the chaos his own greed creates. He doesn’t dog-whistle; he foghorns. He doesn’t hint at evil; he advertises it in 4K.
You know the look: evil in evening wear - pure, uncut, lab-grade. Not the convenience-store stuff. It doesn’t knock; it shoulder-checks the door, flings its coat…
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Editorial Board
when Congress turns governance into a game, it’s not abstract for Black families - it’s a direct hit to their economic security.
For millions of Americans, the federal government isn’t an abstraction. It’s a paycheck, a housing voucher, a student loan payment, a disaster relief check. When the…
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Editorial Board
When “diversity” and “ethnic” become code for “non-white,” they stop being tools for inclusion and start serving the very hierarchies they claim to challenge.
Language is not neutral. Every word carries the fingerprints of power — who gets to define it, who gets to use it, and who gets erased…
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Columnist
When you plant bigotry and water it with fear for fifty years, don’t act surprised when it grows teeth and types “I love Hitler.”
Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber. I’m ready to watch people burn now. When do we start bullying dude? Are you going…
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