Africa’s last colony: Repression and nonviolent resistance in occupied Western Sahara
The Sahrawi people are undeterred in their nonviolent struggle for self-determination.
Republicans, on the ropes, ready to go down; can Democrats deliver the knockout blow?
The people want to see specifics about what Democrats will do differently than has been the case in recent times.
Why U.S. labor laws need a major update—the PRO Act is a great start
The PRO Act will help to level the playing field and arrest the decades-long erosion of labor rights that significantly accelerated under the previous, anti-worker presidential administration.
Let’s Talk About Hillary Clinton and Saudi Arabia
U.S. activists must follow the example of our European allies and demand that our government stop supplying the Saudi rulers with weapons to bomb civilians in Yemen and repress its own citizens.
Trump and DeJoy’s main objective: To incapacitate the US Postal Service
What we need now is to see a plethora of other states joining in these lawsuits that are charging Trump and DeJoy with deliberate voter suppression.
Trump is trying to reverse the New Deal
The class politics of Trump carry forward the actions of his predecessors across the last century.
China will decide the outcome of Russia v. the West
Is Putin the face of the future or the final gasp of the past?
How to Become Terror-Torn Europe – and How Not To
If Trump or Cruz ever enacts the kind of repressive policy they now advocate, then eventually we will become much more like Europe in its ethnic and religious polarization.
While state leaders make war, Spanish children march for peace
On this thirtieth march for international peace in commemoration of the day that Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated, the children sang “No to War,” “Yes to Peace,” “Save the Children,” “Friendship Yes, Violence No.”
The Promise (and Peril) of the New Populism
Populism can be dangerous when embraced by the right because it usually comes mixed with nativism.