October 7, 2021
Cover Story
Editorial Board
I’m not worried about Republicans. I’m angry about the dithering Democrats who can't seem to get off their rusty duffs and do what they were elected to do.
Not a day goes by that I don’t get a text or three from the Democratic National Committee asking for contributions. Sometimes they come from Vice…
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Commentary
Columnist
The pair are not "centrists." They are betraying the untold number of working-class citizens who gave them their votes, thinking that their needs would be represented in the Congress. Instead, the two have been representing the needs of two people: Manchin and Sinema.
Manchin is quite transparent. As a multi-millionaire, he is trying to protect his assets and his wealth, most of which is built on coal, a dirty…
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Commentary
Guest Commentator
September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage MonthThe Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively influenced and enriched…
September 15 to October 15 is National Hispanic American Heritage MonthThe Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
Wealthy white nations are hoarding the COVID vaccine and banning its exports, creating a “vaccine apartheid” where wealthy white nations control over 82% of the world supply of life-saving vaccines, and low-income nations have secured less than 1%. Fewer than 4% of Africans have been fully immunized, and they cannot purchase the vaccine.
When one hurts, we all hurt. That should be the mantra of Black people and people of African descent across the world, wherever they may find…
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Commentary
Columnist
Despite the good things proposed in the Democrats’ reconciliation bill--vision and dental care, universal preschool, two years of free community college, etc.,--the Party has not developed a strong message to sell it!
A ‘Stygian Night’ is coming upon us, as Americans are systematically slipping into a hellish, gloomy darkness as its democratic institutions are collapsing, and K-12 public…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Forced nudity is a form of psychological torture. It is used by prison guards and by militaries. Capturing images of that compromised state must be incredibly humiliating -- opening up feelings of vulnerability, shame and powerlessness.
Reading about the origin of the photos taken of Renty Taylor and his daughter Delia has changed my view about photos. Any photo. Who takes them…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
the Treasury Department issued a report admitting that “the existing child care system in the United States, which relies on private financing to provide care for most children… fails to adequately serve many families.”
American families have struggled for decades to make ends meet with wages simply not rising as fast as the cost of living and a government social…
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