Photograph Source: Deror Avi – CC BY-SA 4.0 For the past 80 years, the United States and Israeli air power have owned the global and Middle Eastern skies, respectively, but wars are typically won with ground power, not air power. World War II was won against Germany...
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Trump’s Tariffs Could Intensify Sri Lanka’s Debt Crisis
Photograph Source: AntanO – CC BY-SA 4.0 On Thursday, 3 April, Sri Lankans woke up to the alarming news that the United States, the country’s single largest export destination, would be applying 44% tariffs. These tariffs will hit Sri Lanka just months after it...
Why Social Democrats in Germany Are Facing Extinction
Image by Eddie Zhang. The coalition negotiations between the social democratic SPD and conservative right CDU/CSU are going surprisingly smoothly, almost harmoniously. Lars Klingbeil, co-chairman of the SPD, explains that he and CDU leader Friedrich Merz get along...
Hip-Hop Can Document Life in America More Reliably Than History Books
Image Source: Homepage of aydeethegreat.com Describing my 2017 appointment as a faculty member, the University of Virginia dubbed me the school’s “first” hip-hop professor. Even if the job title and the historic nature of the appointment might have merited it, the...
Imagining Just and Equitable Workplaces
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Inspiring an imagination for change is one of the hardest things to accomplish in the classroom. My students are brilliant at understanding social problems. They can connect causes of inequality across the globe and analyze how the...
Trump’s Big Wealth Tax
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Many progressives have long pushed for a wealth tax to lessen some of the huge fortunes that have been built as a result of the rise in inequality over the last half-century. Regardless of the merits of a wealth tax, to many of us it...
The Ecology of Occupation: Palestine’s Struggle for Land and Life
Image by Vasilis Caravitis. In the fractured and scarred landscapes of Palestine, where the earth’s skin is etched with memories of violence, dispossession, and resistance, there lies an unspoken tragedy. An ecological tragedy. Beyond the suffocating walls of the...
Why Sandbagging Public Servants Invites Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Workers who issue licenses and permits for the city of Dallas fought back in 2024 when officials moved them into a building that failed to meet the very same safety requirements they enforce at dozens of other office towers. The...
Killing Paramedics: Israel’s War on Palestinian Health
A frame from the video published by NYT, showing the marked ambulances and personel – Fair Use It was a massacre. Fifteen emergency workers, butchered in cold blood by personnel from the Israeli Defense Forces in southern Gaza on March 23. It all came to light from...
Diplomacy or Deception? Trump’s North Korea Strategy
Image by Thomas Evans. At a glimpse, the 7-foot cylindrical silhouette of the MK-82, a 500-lbs bomb manufactured by General Dynamics, could be mistaken for a human being falling from the sky. With an 89 kg explosive payload, the bomb shreds its steel hull upon impact,...
France Looks to Imprison Pro-Palestine Activists
Image by Jordan Bracco. Attacks on the movement for Palestine are escalating. Following the high profile detainment of political prisoner and Palestine movement activist, Mahmoud Khalil, several other pro-Palestine students and researchers across the United States...
My Immigrant Father “Stole” American Jobs: Another “Confession” from a Child of Mexican Immigrants
Dear Xenophobic America, On November 14, 2024, I “confessed” that my late Mexican immigrant mother, Carmen Mejía Huerta, “stole” White American jobs. My mother’s “high crimes and misdemeanors” consisted of working as a domestic worker (doméstica)for over four decades,...