California’s Civil Grand Juries
The last of their kind in the nation By Katy St. Clair There is a tenet of American democracy that has fallen by the wayside in most every state except for one: California. It’s the…
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Educating for Democracy
By Michael Schwalbe The latest case of right-wing Republican meddling in the curriculum of North Carolina’s public universities comes in the form of a proposed requirement, engineered by the political appointees who constitute the UNC…
Bordering on the Ridiculous
Cynical hypocrisy on immigration policy Commentary by Rob Schofield As with so many other problems afflicting modern America—the climate emergency, economic inequality, the federal debt, gun violence, racism, our threadbare public education system—there’s plenty of…
How Much of Trump’s Support Is Due to Racism?
Commentary by Dan Froomkin There is one theory that fully explains the massive support that Trump continues to get among the Republican voting base: That they’re racist. To be clear, this is a theory, not…
Donald Trump and the Exceptions of American Evangelicalism
By John G. Stackhouse, Jr. As Republicans continue to contend over their party’s presidential nomination—if “contend” is the right word for “jockeying to see who will be the last candidate knocked off by Donald Trump”—Trump…
Oregon Officials Seek to Ban Public Drug Use
By Mike Baker After years of rising overdoses and an exodus of business from central Portland, Gov. Tina Kotek of Oregon said on Monday that state and city officials are proposing to roll back a…
Western Media’s Islamophobic Rhetoric
Commentary, by Andrew Mitrovica Israel has waged war on Palestinians for decades. That fact may come, I suspect, as a surprise to many people whose grasp of the world is shaped by their exclusive consumption…
US Asks Qatar to Censor Al Jazeera News
By Robert Tait The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, has reportedly asked Qatar to moderate Al Jazeera’s coverage of Israel’s war against Hamas, amid concerns within the Biden administration that the channel is inflaming…
Colombian Indigenous March
Indigenous and social organizations march against violence in Bogotá by Peoples Dispatch Over 15,000 Indigenous people from 10 departments of Colombia arrived in the capital Bogotá between September 25 and 27 to draw the national…
Building Cross-Border Solidarity
Mexican journalist José Luis Granados Ceja visits the Triangle By Sharmîn Aziz On October 21st and 22nd, José Luis Granados Ceja visited Durham and Raleigh as part of the “Mexico Solidarity Tour.” José Luis lives…