Image by Colin Lloyd. In my 50-some years of community and political ministry, and organizing that resisted Boston’s test with “stop and frisk” after the hoax of Charles Stuart murdering his wife and blaming it on a Black man, I thought I had seen it all. Then, when...
Image by TS. The killing of seven Palestinian journalists and media workers in Gaza on August 10 and five more on August 25 has prompted verbal condemnations, yet has inspired little to no substantive action. This has become the predictable and horrifying trajectory...
Political engagement is a big concept that could conceivably encompass most charitable activities: Think nonpartisan voter registration, issue advocacy, and policy education. Charities have a rich history of fostering civic engagement, promoting democratic principles,...
Image by Allison Saeng. A.I. is asking us to reexamine our humanity. It pops this question every time we sit down to write – whether we’re a high school student writing an English essay, a manager penning a business memo, or a screenwriter composing a script for an...
Image by Unsplash+ and Getty. With the Trump administration rolling back essential health insurance protections and rejecting a national, single-payer health insurance program, America’s race to the bottom continues full steam ahead for millions of Americans with...
Image by Justin Ortega. Here’s the terrifying moment in the American system. The economy exists for one thing, and one thing only: access to cheap (or close to free) currency which it may borrow from through the Federal Reserve whenever banking and corporate America...
Photograph Source: Federalreserve – Public Domain Trump has rapidly turned the US government into an authoritarian cesspool. His latest plunge into the muck is the effort to force Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook to resign over allegations of mortgage fraud....
Image by Bret Kavanaugh. In the last dozen or so years of the twentieth century, the United States sent US military forces to Peru, Colombia, and Panama in the name of a war on drugs. These troops performed a variety of missions; among them were training death squads...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The gap between CEO compensation and median worker pay at Starbucks hit 6,666 to 1 last year. In other words, to make as much money as their CEO made last year, typical baristas would’ve had to start brewing macchiatos around the time...
Photograph Source: Annette Kurylo – CC BY-SA 3.0 By the early 1980s, South Africa’s system of racial apartheid had evolved from an issue of limited concern to becoming a major issue globally. Years of campaigning by anti-apartheid activists, the Congressional Black...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered. Be it through carelessness, selfishness or plain malice on the part of officialdom, creating the circumstances under which a population expires to hunger is a matter of...
Photograph Source: conceptphoto.info – CC BY 2.0 Wolfgang Streeck, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, is in the front ranks of Europe’s social thinkers, having come out with some of the most penetrating analyses of the...