July 25, 2024
Commentary
Editorial Board
She has reenergized the base and injected hope, focusing on working folks like me.
Kamala Harris’s life as Vice President took a 180-turn in 24 hours from her stumping for Biden in Provincetown, an LGBTQ+ culture hub and haven, on…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Harris as a potential presidential nominee can only expect success if the Democrats launch a serious, vibrant grassroots campaign that informs and galvanizes all the constituents that trump has marginalized and criminalized.
Alexandria Osario-Cortez (AOC) had warned her fellow Democrats not to be too hasty on kicking President Biden to the curb because she had not seen an…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Is there anything J. D. Vance sincerely believes?
After all the speculation about whom he would choose, Donald Trump selected J. D. Vance, the junior senator of Ohio, as his running mate in the…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Don’t be distracted by the anti-immigrant rhetoric this election. The real impact on democracy comes from moneyed elites.
When President Joe Biden said in a phone call to MSNBC’s Morning Joe recently, “I’m getting so frustrated with the elites… the elites of the party.…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
The question is whether marijuana legalization and taxation could become an economic development pathway for Black people, in the manner that Native American nations are making it work for them.
Cannabis has emerged as a racial justice issue for Black people in America, and it makes sense. After years of atrocious marijuana policies that criminalized and…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Sheila said she wanted to be an “Energizer Bunny” for Houston, and indeed she was. She was also an Energizer Bunny for social and economic justice.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) didn’t lose many battles, but she succumbed to pancreatic cancer on July 19. She tackled the disease like she tackled so…
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