Friday, March 29, 2024

Giving a pass to anti-Muslim bigotry

Islamophobia enters the government, is incorporated into the law, and becomes increasingly acceptable in America.

‘Corporate media are not observers of the electoral process; they are participants’

And that is a complete misunderstanding of the actual sociology of America.

How worker solidarity protects what’s left of the middle class

Union contracts provide decent wages and benefits along with safe working conditions, retirement security and a means for workers to stand up for themselves.

How to reclaim the narrative – and power – in post-truth America

Hope plus action and investment equals revolutionary muscle. Now is the time for the progressive majority to set the terms of the conversation.

Over 120 lawmakers call for an end to restrictions on gun violence research

The lawmakers want changes “that could help prevent gun violence while still protecting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.”
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Mass protests meet Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki over human rights, free speech, climate action

As the two leaders drove from the airport to their summit, they were met by 300 billboards in English and Russian that were posted by the country’s leading newspaper, Helsingin Sanomat.

Record inequality and corporate profits are what media call a ‘strong economy’

It makes little sense if one assumes corporate journalists are primarily concerned with informing the public.

America unmasked

Did the long pandemic spawn a new kind of repression?

Making national parks accessible to native people again

A violent, racist history has kept Native people off their ancestral lands for decades. How can we remove the barriers that still exist today?

Men, we can do better

Survivors of sexual assault like Christine Blasey Ford deserve our support, not our opposition.