Category: Thinking Politically

This trope has long been used to justify repression of anarchists, communists, liberals, immigrants, and unions.

Argues that counterposing economic populism to identity politics is counterproductive.

Talks about how Cuba offered doctors and other health care personnel when New Orleans was overwhelmed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and how the US refused to let them enter the country.

From Minnesota to Palestine, a reminder that the children are ours, all of them, because that is what morality requires of us.

Shows that even wealth cannot protect you from environmental destruction.

“Imagine looking at your child, and you can’t feed him. You can’t do anything for him.”

Article suggests how we can prepare to counter Trump’s efforts to take over various cities and towns.

In homeschool cooperatives, students learn side by side from one another’s parents — an embodiment of the saying “It takes a village to raise a child.” At For the Culture, parent-teachers introduced Cari and her classmates to the genocide in Gaza and other current events during their weekly sessions, then supported those who wanted to…

To conquer a place is to fundamentally subdue its population. This must be clearly differentiated from ‘occupation’, a specific legal term that governs the relationship between a foreign “occupying power” and the occupied nation under international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention. When Israeli forces were ultimately compelled to redeploy from the Gaza Strip in…

Argues that the left needs to develop a plan, and implement it, on flooding Congress people’s offices across the country during this summer’s recess–both Democrats and Republicans–to demand an opening of the Epstein files, an end of aid to Israel, and an end to Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) exports and keeping fossil fuels in the…