December 06, 2018
Cover Story
Columnist
teachers need to press their national, state, and local union affiliates to push the leadership of the upcoming Democratically-controlled U.S. House of Representatives to make public education a preeminent issue.
The Democrats’ 2018 midterm celebrations at the local, state, and federal levels are winding down and now it is time for the ‘rubber to meet the…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The inconvenient truth is that the presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush had far more in common with the recognizably belligerent, corrupt, and right-wing Republican figures who came after him — his son George W. and the current orange-faced incumbent — than much of the political and media classes might have you believe.
The tributes to former President George H.W. Bush, who died on Friday, November 30, 2018, aged 94, have been pouring in from all sides of the…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Today, neo-Nazis are using social networking to secretly organize and train a paramilitary force, and prepare for a “race war” against Blacks and Jews. At a time when white nationalism is mainstreamed, and white supremacist violence is on the rise, if law enforcement forces fail to act, the problem of far-right domestic terrorism will remain as such for the foreseeable future.
The Proud Boys, a so-called “Western chauvinist” group founded by VICE Media co-founder Gavin McInnes, is in fact classified by the FBI as an “extremist group…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
What does it mean that there is no Black woman in the formal leadership of the House of Representatives, even though Black women are the backbone of the Democratic Party? Does intergenerational leadership mean that seasoned leaders have to step aside, or does it suggest that emerging leaders need to pull a chair (not a treacherous knife) up to the table?
Barbara Williams Skinner, at 75, looks at least two decades younger than her birth certificate suggests. Much of her youthful energy is due to her discipline,…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Following a quarter of a century - from the testimonies of Anita Hill, J.D., to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford - the U.S. is still struggling: with both how not to violate women, as well as how not to silence them.
"Awareness in and of itself is not a moral virtue. It’s what happens after the awareness that counts." Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo Movement Dr.…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Ordinary Americans, not elected officials, will determine the future of progressive politics in the US.
Two weeks before the November 6 midterm elections, the White House released a special report by the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) on the opportunity costs…
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