Issue: 844
Dec 3, 2020
Color of Law
White Domestic Terrorists Like Kyle Rittenhouse Are Held to a Different Standard
Executive Editor
in the land of the free - where a domestic terrorist is a freedom fighter when he fights for white supremacy and a country that continues to oppress and murder Black people - such young thugs are afforded a hero’s welcome.
Kyle Rittenhouse is a white domestic terrorist who should spend a lifetime in prison. However, white nationalists, Donald Trump and the Republican Party view him as…
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Guest Commentary
Politically Dead Man Walking: The Prologue to Trump’s Presidential Obituary
Guest Commentator
He will have his day in court and the public will learn more than ever about his unscrupulous and dishonorable business practices and immoral character.
Donald Trump was soundly defeated in the presidential election by 74 electoral votes, which included loses in the reliably deep red states of Georgia and Arizona,…
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Guest Commentary
Will Biden Ensure My Family Is Reunited?
Guest Commentator
Trump’s cruel anti-immigrant agenda separated untold numbers of families, including mine. Will the new administration fix the mess?
Millions of Americans are celebrating Donald Trump’s election loss. But for some of us, it’s also deeply personal. To my family, Trump’s loss means the possibility…
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Commentary
Young Voters Showed Up and Showed Out
Editorial Board
I am excited about the 2020 youth coalition and look forward to how they may continue to come together for better health care, a more inclusive economy, planet-saving policies to slow climate change, and the dismantling of systemic racism.
Voters between 18 and 29 made history in the 2020 election. According to the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement, or CIRCLE,…
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Commentary
Cobalt Children and Romancing Whiteness
Editorial Board
the children in the Congo just want a chance to realize their potential as human beings. If not for a reminder of a peculiar arrangement of humanity.
It is the same final judgment made on Kurtz in Heart of Darkness: his trading methods were unsound and had to be abandoned. Sven Lindqvist, "Exterminate…
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Commentary
Can Rich Millenials Shrink the Gap Between the 1 Percent and the Rest of Us? – Solidarity America
Columnist
As the founders declared of King George, he was “hollowing out the people.” The rich are doing the same thing to the people today.
For some time now, the obscenely rich have begun to express a small amount of alarm about what the disparity between the rich and the poor…
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Commentary
Remote Learning Impacts Education of Children of Color
Columnist
Given the challenges of remote learning for poor and working-class children coupled with rising hunger, these children and their parents need help, and it needs to occur now as a sign that they and their parents’ votes matter.
Donald Trump is very unlikely to run in 2024 as his hold over his base has waned, and he and his family are likely to be…
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