Nigerian journalist & activist Omoyele Sowore remains jailed for calling for peaceful protests
Journalist and pro-democracy activist Omoyele Sowore is entering his second month in jail for calling for peaceful nationwide protests against the government....
Redacting democracy: Blacking out the record of the grimmest aspects of American history
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” Today, Americans are forgetting.
How liberals left the white working class behind
White working-class anger has been simmering for decades, due to globalization, wage stagnation, and the myth of meritocracy.
Honoring two men just brought down by the coronavirus pandemic
John Prine and Bernie Sanders have left a legacy, the importance of which cannot be ignored.
The government is expanding its social media surveillance capabilities
But social media monitoring programs and the algorithms that power them aren’t effective — and may be discriminatory.
Trump’s Mexico tariffs are about white nationalism, not trade
There’s nothing “uncontrollable” about people applying for asylum. All the U.S. has to do is meet its obligations under international law.
How funding black businesses can help bridge the racial wealth gap
The Runway Project is making entrepreneurship more accessible to Black communities.
Below the surface of ICE: The corporations profiting from immigrant detention
Activists are targeting the companies that make ICE run.
Why the new push for charter schools should anger progressives
Surveys find that Americans have increased confidence in public schools while support for charter schools has dropped by double digit percentages among Democrats and Republicans.
Alex Jones on Florida high school shooting: It may be a false flag, and...
"I'm not saying this is a false flag, but they've been talking about massacres and things if people don’t leave them alone, and release the memo."