Ben Carson: Fighting Trump’s war on the poor
Somehow a trillion-dollar tax giveaway is no issue for the deficit, but modest housing assistance for America's poorest people has to go.
Juneteenth for white folk
Is Juneteenth the national holiday going to fix the disparate outcomes for black people in education, health, income, wealth, home ownership, death by police, imprisonment, unemployment, and other inequities?
Who benefits from racism?
Throughout history, the rich have used racism to divide people and thereby entrench themselves.
5 Indigenous women asserting the modern matriarchy
They are reclaiming the tradition of female leadership and turning the old, white, male-dominated perspective of history on its head.
Paper or digital, political posters matter as much as ever
“Print is not dead!” Lincoln Cushing exclaims. And digital is not always the ideal alternative – with social media algorithms set up to silo people into comfortable bubbles, these posters might not travel to unlikely audiences.
New campaign: Classrooms Not Computers, stop education profiteering
The devil is in the details. The devil is in the data.
Why riot? Toward a typology of social unrest
It is not fair to expect oppressed people to answer violence with nonviolence, but it’s what actually works far more often.
VIDEO: Fracture: Joy-Ann Reid on Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide
In her new book, Joy-Ann Reid looks at the history of race relations in the U.S. She discusses the political shifts in the Democratic Party and the relationship between the Clintons and Obama on Democracy Now.
Rush Limbaugh: “We’re in the midst of a silent coup” by the GOP establishment...
Limbaugh: “The fight is Donald Trump and his cadre ... versus the Washington establishment. It has always been that and nothing more.”
When comedian Dick Gregory tried to bust the word
One afternoon in New York City in the spring of 1964, I marched at the head of a small civil rights demonstration,...