April 21, 2022
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Along the way, the day devoted to saving our only habitat became a day of meaningless slogans and actions that make the general public and the guilty polluters feel good.
Earth Day was born on April 22, 1970. It was the brainchild of a liberal senator in Wisconsin who went on to become the governor. Gaylord…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
These more recent events are part of a centuries-old tactic of land grabs and power moves to remove Black people from their land—in a nation built on stolen land.
The attempted state takeover of a Mason, Tenn., town is a reminder that America has a long history of taking over Black towns. In what was…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
it’s only a matter of time before the anti-abortionists’ wildest dream of overturning the Roe v. Wade precedent at the Supreme Court will come true.
The U.S. is sliding toward a grim future where abortion is criminalized with little support for families. This “new normal” is disproportionately impacting low-income people of…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Both nations violate treaties at will, including the United Nations Charter, Kellogg Briand Pact and other laws against war.
Neither the United States nor Russia is a party to the International Criminal Court – and the United States punishes other governments for supporting the ICC.…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
From the 1930s through the present, powerful corporate interests have exercised a large, often decisive influence among Democrats, along with urban machines dominated by ethnic interests, and, until recently, white southerners of all classes.
Many political analysts, including some on the Left, are positing a radically new configuration of class in the United States. Their argument, reduced to its essence,…
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