Category: Thinking Politically

A historian discusses past anti-fascist organizations and practices in light of Trump’s effort to criminalize “antifa.”

Gaza used to unite Egyptians. Now it only reminds them of what they’ve lost—the right to speak, to gather, to demand anything.

Hamas says it wants to make a deal and sees Trump as the key, but will not “raise the white flag.”

Horace Mann, frequently referred to as the “father of public education”, declared that public education should be nonsectarian.

Inside the “legal black hole” in Eswatini, where Trump is sending detainees.

This article discusses how we create social change from below.

“This is a continuation of the occupation, if not a continuation of the war by other means.”

Eating fruits and vegetables grown in the U.S. exposes consumers to classes of pesticides associated with serious health problems. New research helps show just how much.

Most if not all of the contradictions that are maturing today emerge from long ago events shaped by the US’s national religions of anti-Communism and racial supremacy. The Cold War and its deeply embedded assumptions account for a great share of the waste, irrationality, brutality, and chaos that we are living through today.

Dissatisfied with either Marxism or Identity Politics to provide a satisfactory explanation of social behavior, this article provides what the author believes is a better explanation of social behavior. Part 1, herein, shows that when examined completely, the inadequacy of currently established social theory becomes obvious. In Part 2–to be published in a week–he will…