The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He chose that location in part to honor President Abraham Lincoln...
It’s ten years since the death of Mike Marqusee, a brilliant socialist writer who tackled everything from the careers of Muhammad Ali and Bob Dylan to the politics of Zionism. Marqusee’s addictively readable work...
A job listing for the Super Bowl LIX halftime show offers $12 per hour — part of a long pattern of host-city residents getting the short shrift. Jonah Valdez January 10, 2025 Read the...
In his recent op-ed in the New York Daily News, Leonard Greene argues that the Mississippi Valley State University (MVSU), an HBCU marching band, should not be criticized for accepting an invitation to perform...
Billionaire Trump associate Elon Musk’s latest disinformation campaign is targeting the U.K. government, which Musk appears to believe is not sufficiently anti-immigrant. Musk, who has already shaped the incoming Trump administration’s economic policy by...
A banner 2024 whet the appetites of banks and crypto bros. Now the largest companies are salivating over Trump’s economic policies. The super-rich are ecstatic. Bitcoin’s value surged past $100,000 last year, and bankers...
The U.S. political system is owned by corporations despised by the American people. Luigi Mangione is the result. Sunjeev Bery December 19, 2024 Read the full article here The Intercept
A report released on December 27 from hud.gov dropped an extremely startling new statistic. In the last year the number of homeless individuals in America shot up an astounding 18%, bringing the number of...
The anti-abortion movement is looking at ways to control information about how and where to obtain abortions The next front in the US abortion wars may be what people are allowed to say about...
A newly obtained document sheds light on how the disavowed “excited delirium” diagnosis infiltrated the Rochester Police Department before Prude’s death. What killed Daniel Prude? The 41-year-old died in March 2020 after cops pinned...
“Nearly 60% of mandatory spending is for Medicare and Social Security,” noted one expert. “If they don’t touch those, they’d have to cut Medicaid to the bone.” With a potential government shutdown just hours...
