In the United States, 2020 has proved to be the year everything changed except what most needs to change. Despite massive protests for months, police continue to shoot and kill Black citizens and brutalize peaceful ant-racist protesters. They do so as armed, far-right vigilantes emerge from whatever aggrieved netherworld they occupy to menace Black Lives Matter
The year 2020 is proving to be the year of global disease, economic collapse, and mass rebellion against police brutality in the United States. Sparked by the police murder of George Floyd on May 25 in Minneapolis, the status quo in the United States is collapsing, shaken by a largely youth-led anti-racist protest movement of
The United States leads the world in Covid-19 morbidity and mortality. It’s also among the global frontrunners for organized political idiocy, as President Trump’s deadly incompetence in managing the crisis has left many Americans in despair, their hopes for the future uncertain if not on life support. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports 1,504,830 total cases
There’s a lot of talk in the Trump era about the “war on science.” But this war, such as it is, extends far beyond uninformed Republican attacks on climate change science or Donald Trump’s mocking insults of Greta Thunberg, the teen climate activist nearly 60 years the old bully’s junior. This war involves not only
NO BILLIONAIRES, NO FASCISTS, NO WARMONGERS There’s probably no bigger sin in American politics than to imagine a world without war, inequality, and capitalism. Actually, imagining just a kinder, more equitable version of capitalism, one in which the existence of elite wealth is tempered by the peoples’ right to health care, a college education, affordable
MARK HARRIS 