A Win for the Poor
By Eve Ottenberg Roughly 20 million Americans live in trailer parks, and in recent years rents there, like everywhere, shot up. Since these tenants often cling to a lower rung of the socio-economic ladder, such…
Politics
A New Permanent Affordable Housing Proposal
By Omar Ocampo In its most recent year-end letter, the private equity firm Blackstone gave its stockholders a seemingly counterintuitive assurance: the lack of new housing stock was reason for optimism. Why does a stagnant…
What Venezuelans Think About Their Presidential Election
By Roger D. Harris It’s been nearly three months since the Venezuelans went to the polls on July 28, and there is still contention domestically and abroad regarding the winner of the presidential election. This…
The Unsung History of Heartland Socialism
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…
The Slide into Authoritarianism
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…
Solidarity to the Haitian Community
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…
‘ The Tyranny of Merit ’
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…
Necessity Drives Us Together
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…
People’s Will or Donors’ Will?
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…
Stop Using the Term ‘Centrist’
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…