Cover art for the book Freedom Train: Black Politics and the Story of Interracial Labor Solidarity by Cedric De Leon The elusive promise of interracial solidarity is an age-old question, one made all the more urgent in the current political climate. Can Black and...
Image by Ash Hayes. I rarely visit Rome without stopping at the Campo de’ Fiori to pay homage to Giordano Bruno, an Italian philosopher who, in 1600, was brutally burned at the stake by the Roman Inquisition. His crime was daring to challenge entrenched dogmas and to...
wrapped in red ribbons and sparkles that blind they drone on about war as if they were talking about stock prices as if it were a bloodless event war when they should be reporting that the sun has stripped the yellow from its flower in shame and the rose has lost her...
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In most of the liberal discussions of the recent police killings of unarmed black men, there is an underlying assumption that the police are supposed to protect and serve the population. That is, after all, what they were created to do. If only the normal, decent...
Cover art for the book Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond by Eleanor Finley Proponents of the theory and praxis of social ecology – the holistic approach to reharmonizing society and nature originated by social theorist Murray Bookchin...
Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima, Japan. Image by Alessandro Stech. August 6 and 9 are the 80th anniversaries of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The killing of 140,000 civilians at Hiroshima was the effect of detonating a 60-million-degree Celsius...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As usual, the New York Times gets things exactly wrong in a piece headlined “Trump’s Tariffs are Making Money. That May Make Them Hard to Quit.” The gist of the article is that the tariffs are on a path to raise close to $400 billion...
Photograph Source: Aimee – CC BY-SA 4.0 There were the doomsdayers, the moaners and, let’s face it, the ill-wishers, hoping that a march across one of the most famous bridges in Australia would not take place. Despite this, some 100,000 people attended the March for...
Photo by Yanapi Senaud On August 6 — unless he chickens out — US president Donald Trump will impose a 50% tariff on American buyers of Brazilian coffee. Brazilian coffee isn’t the only coffee Americans find themselves paying exorbitant taxes on. Vietnamese,...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair A week ago, a parade of op-ed writers, pundits, editorial boards, and politicians who have publicly supported, justified, excused, or both-sidesed the siege of Gaza for more than a year and a half began a series of predictable...
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. August 2nd to 3rd 2025 marked the “holiday” of Tisha B’av. Jews observe it with readings of Lamentations, a part of the extended Torah, chronicling the history of one of many catastrophic destructions of the nation of Israel. Observant Jews...