Culture

People from all social groups and backgrounds commit crimes. But undocumented immigrants, and immigrants more generally, are often baselessly blamed for increasing crime rates.

“To allow these companies to essentially function as de facto platforms for censorship and manipulation … harkens back to the way civil liberties were eviscerated in the wake of 9/11.”

Thousands of workers are on strike at John Deere after the United Auto Workers failed to reach an agreement with the company to improve wages.

Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold says as President Sanders couldn’t get any of his ideas implemented anyway because Congress would reject them. But if Bernie Sanders is elected president, American politics will have been altered, reducing the moneyed interests’ chokehold over the public agenda.

In North Dakota, members of Congress will hear testimony about barriers to the ballot box.

Harriet Tubman once said that slavery was “the next thing to hell.” She helped many transcend that hell.

Or will we truly find ourselves living in Trumptopia?

Did the long pandemic spawn a new kind of repression?

Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.

Why is it so hard for people with wealth and power to admit all this?