December 7, 2023
Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
the recent electoral victories of Javier Milei in Argentina and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands suggest that the world has not yet reached peak populism.
Panic does not produce prudent politics. Panic produces provocative populists. And it reduces pundits to Seussian spluttering. How can voters choose such…panic-peddling panderers?! The defeats of…
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Cover Story
Editorial Board
there is a big difference between giving someone a jacket and giving them a book, especially if the book is a gift for a young person.
They don’t call it “Black Friday” because they love Black people; they call it Black Friday because many businesses are pushed into the black (from the…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
the cold, hard reality is that the current dilemma that Republicans are facing is that the problem lies within the party itself. Period.
Waterloo? The apocalypse? The Titanic? These are just some of the terms that observers are employing as they describe the current state of the Republican Party.…
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Color of Law
Executive Editor
In America, watermelons were a symbol of Black freedom and self-sufficiency when the formerly enslaved grew and sold them after emancipation. For the white supremacist power structure, this was a threat to the racial order and white power.
It is possible that watermelons are both a symbol of racism for Black people in America and a symbol of solidarity and empowerment for Palestinians. There…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
The only way to steer American democracy to safety is to wrest money out of the claws of the wealthiest elites, who now control finances rivaling the economies of whole nations.
As we count down toward the 2024 general election, we should expect to hear from media pundits about candidates and their viability, swing states and the…
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