By Miles Kampf-Lassin On a midsummer afternoon in June 1918, Eugene Debs stepped into a gazebo nestled under the trees of Nimisilla Park in Canton, Ohio, to deliver the speech that would land him in…
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By John Kiriakou All of us who care about civil liberties, civil rights, human rights and freedom of the press have had a front-row seat lately to a slide toward what can only be described…
of Springfield, Ohio! By Liberation News In early September, a Facebook user posted a false claim arguing that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, OH were eating pets and waterfowl. This false claim turned into a national…
A 2020 interview with Michael Sandel about the populist backlash By Julian Coman Michael Sandel was 18 years old when he received his first significant lesson in the art of politics. The future philosopher was…
By Patrick Mazza The future is community. That might seem like a paradoxical way to begin a piece on the potential for break-up and conflict in the U.S. But it is the fundamental insight into…
Election 2024 Commentary by Belén Fernández In the aftermath of United States President Joe Biden’s train wreck of a performance in the June 27 presidential debate with Donald Trump, Democratic Party donors went into a…
It doesn’t mean what you think it does Commentary by Arwa Mahdawi If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy, wrote Orwell. That applies today more than ever. I…
Morrow’s a wild pick for NC schools chief By Myron B. Pitts Michele Morrow is the strongest statement that North Carolina Republicans have made yet on their real thoughts on public education. It is not…
North Carolina Is Exhibit A By Lewis Raven Wallace The Christian right has a new charismatic leader: Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina, who is running a bone-chilling campaign to become the state’s…
By Colin Seeberger The new authoritarian playbook would devastate residents of North Carolina in many ways. Project 2025 is a plan to gut America’s system of checks and balances in order to enact an extreme,…