October 19, 2023
Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The answer to Hamas’s horrifying crimes isn’t to kill innocent Gazans — it’s to change the conditions from which this brutality sprang.
The violence in Gaza and Israel is bringing horrifying new levels of human suffering to both Israelis and Palestinians. Both sides have committed heinous violations of…
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View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Now the country’s business is being held hostage because the Republicans kicked out the Speaker of the House with absolutely no plan for a successor.
The chaos on Capitol Hill has been going on far too long, long enough for us to draw some informed conclusions. The situation has reached unbelievable…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
there has been a major realignment, and long story short, the GOP has emerged as the party of white American fascism, anti-Blackness and domestic terrorism.
Black Democratic politicians who flip parties after they are elected and join the MAGA Republicans are betraying their voters in a cynical, power-hungry and hazardous game…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
With COVID-19 death rates hitting the LGBTQ+ community globally as hard as other minority communities worldwide, one would think the Church could put aside its homophobia.
The Super Bowl of the Catholic Church - General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, commonly known as the Synod on Synodality - has Rome abuzz.…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The fast-food industry threatened to undo a major labor law in California. But even a compromise bill appeasing the industry is a huge step forward for low-wage workers.
More than half a million fast-food workers in California are about to get a raise—not because of the voluntary generosity of their bosses, but as a…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
A free and open community grief-tending event in Berkeley, California, set an example for coming to terms with loss—of people we love and of nature.
White tarp tents lined one side of Allston Way in Berkeley, California, on a sunny week in early April 2023, beneath which a cluster of people…
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