Jan 6, 2023
The African World
Editorial Board
It is important to be clear that the right-wing populist/authoritarian movement that has become energized since 2009 did not appear out of nowhere.
B4—the Broad Front Opposing the Right—can’t be about the status quo. While it must be aimed at defeating all attacks on our democratic rights, its thrust…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Sadly, Benedicts’s anti-modernity views on AIDS and women’s roles within the Catholic Church hierarchy were both retro, wreckless, and spiritually abusive. For example, he stuck by his no condoms even in an age of AIDS
Pope Benedict XVI, a.k.a. Joseph Ratzinger, died over the Christmas holidays. Many Catholics will recall the legacy of his papacy with mixed feelings. First and foremost…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
other countries, such as France and Germany, offer low-cost tuition, and in countries including Finland, Brazil, Norway and Panama, there is no tuition at all. But education did not always come at such a high cost in America, where public education was once treated as a public good.
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear two legal challenges brought by six Republican-led states and two student loan debtors to President Biden’s $400 billion…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Our movements need to go cold turkey on our gradualism addiction and be prepared to take some unflinching liberatory leaps this year.
January is about respecting and protecting the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It is in this spirit that I invoke - not a dreamin’…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
the fact (often frustrating) is that when the topic is race and masculinity, the conversations often seem to take a more myopic and predictable direction.
Over the past couple of years, the issue of masculinity has become a perennial topic of discussion. Numerous op-ed articles, books (including one by yours truly),…
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