Commentary by Percy C. Hintzen During the 1950s and 1960s, development economists Walt W. Rostow and Sir William Arthur Lewis convinced governments of the Global South that dependence upon Euro-America is the only path to…
Commentary by Jasmine Duff Joe Kent’s resignation as a top US counterterrorism official over President Trump’s war on Iran has been a godsend for far-right antisemitic conspiracy theorists. MAGA figures like Tucker Carlson and Nick…
AOC says “No war” — but she’s already helping start one By Bronx Anti-War Coalition On February 21, 2026, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez posted on X: “No war with Iran.” It got 8+ million views. It was…
US Bows To African Revolutionaries By Kit Klarenberg On February 2nd, the BBC published an extraordinary report on how the Trump administration “has declared a stark policy shift” towards Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, the…
Reshaping everything from utilities to environmental regulation in North Carolina By Doug Bock Clark North Carolina voters have chosen Democrats in three straight elections for governor; the state’s Republican-led legislature has countered by siphoning off…
By Joshua Peters Gerrymandering is the practice of drawing the boundaries of electoral districts to give one political party or group an advantage over others. The term “gerrymandering” was coined in the early 19th century…
By Synclaire Cruel It had been more than 160 days since North Carolina had a state budget when, on November 19, the North Carolina Senate Democratic Caucus held “The Real-World Impact of Failing to Pass…
On the January 30 “general strike” Commentary by Tabitha Arnold Adrienne Maree Brown imagines community organizing as a series of spells. You might use one of brown’s spells for radicals to greet a comrade with…
The End of the Political Commentary by Nel Bonilla Why are administrative instead of legal tools used to sanction people like Jacques Baud, Hüseyin Doğru, Alina Lipp, or Nathalie Yamb? We are witnessing a fundamental…
By Max Page Taxing the rich should bring a smile to your face. It certainly brings one to mine. Here’s what passing the Fair Share Amendment in Massachusetts allowed us to do, in just the…