January 2019

Celebrity Bullshit

What Makes America Great?

Roe: 47 Years and Counting

Warmongering Over Warmbier: US Hypocrisy and a Double Standard on North Korea

The World Will End in Fire

False ‘Victories’: Is the PA Using the ‘State of Palestine’ to Remain in Power?

Single Payer Gold Standard HR 676 Rest in Peace

How Worried Should We be If China’s Growth Rate Slows to 6.4%?

An Essay on Grief

Creating a Global Lost Generation

Rebranding Canada’s Solitary Confinement Policy Doesn’t Change What It Is

America Has Lost Its Common Sense

Eyeing the White House: the Democratic Field

L.A. Teachers Strike Dispatch #9: What We Won

The System’s Falling Apart: Were the Dogmatic Marxists Right After All?

Turning Federal Lands Over to the States and Other Rightwing Fantasies

Stalled Brexit Goings On

The Pros and Cons of Near Term Human Extinction

The Ark Builders

Musical Unity

Forest Service Ignores Science to Justify Logging

Chavez and the Continent of Politics: a Conversation with Chris Gilbert

Popular Democracy in Cuba

No Saviors But Ourselves; No Disobedience Without Deeper Loyalty

Jury Trial? You Have No Right!

The History Behind Nate Phillips’ Song

The Smile of Class Privilege

In the Fray: Responses to Covington Catholic High

Time for the U.S. Yellow Vests

On the Brink of Brexit: the Only Thing Most People Outside Westminster Know About Brexit is That It’s a Mess

Another Slugger from Louisville: Muhammad Ali

The Double Bind of Human Senescence

Darth Trump: From Space Force to Star Wars

Disposable Man Gets His Balls Back

The Brazen Detention of Marzieh Hashemi, America’s Newest Political Prisoner

Mr. President, We Don’t Need Your Stinking Wall

The Trump Tax Cut is Even Worse Than They Say

The Scarlet “I”: Climate Change, “Invasive” Plants and Our Culture of Domination

Now More Than Ever, It’s Clear the FBI Must Go

The Little Brett Kavanaughs from Covington Catholic High

Teachers Strike Dispatch #8: New Independent Study Confirms LAUSD Has the Money to Meet UTLA’s Demands

I Was Absolutely Afraid”: Indigenous Elder on “Mob Mentality” of MAGA Hat-Wearing Students in D.C.

Complaint Lodged with European Ombudsman: Regulatory Authorities Colluding with Agrochemicals Industry

Spy Theories and the White House: Donald Trump as Russian Agent

Macronist Repression Against the People in Yellow Vests

New US Economic Attack Against Cuba, Long Threatened, May Hit Soon

The Next Recession: What It Could Look Like

Jeff Sessions and the Federalists

Central America Needs a Marshall Plan

The US War Against the Weak