News and Analysis from the United States
My brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine. —By Mac McClelland “DON’T TAKE ANYTHING that happens to you there personally,” the woman at the local chamber of commerce says when I tell her that tomorrow I start working at… Read More ›
A historian argues that one of the defining elements of American culture is merely a “social fiction” by LAURA MILLER Jacqueline Jones’ provocative new history, “Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,” contains a startling sentence on… Read More ›
The general’s presence on campus has sparked protests, arrests and beatings in the streets. By Peter Rugh Want to turn a university into a war zone? Invite General David Petraeus onto campus. Ever since the general showed up at the City… Read More ›
Dec. 8, 2013 Today is the fifth anniversary of the founding of the American Party of Labor (APL). On December 8th, 2008, the Party came into existence with the conclusion of our Founding Congress. Delegates from the pre-party committee came… Read More ›
COLEMAN, FLORIDA – Leonard Peltier, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, who has been imprisoned for the past 37 years, issued statement on the passing of former South Africa President Nelson Mandela. Peltier is serving a life sentence in the U.S…. Read More ›
By Clare Kim As the number of homeless people in Los Angeles County continues to rise, the City Council is weighing a ban on feeding homeless people in public areas. City Council members Tom LaBonge and Mitch O’Farrell, both Democrats, introduced the resolution… Read More ›
By Linda Tirado What we know about poverty is often academic. It’s rare to have a poor person actually explain it on their own behalf. So this is me doing that. There’s no way to structure this coherently. They are random… Read More ›
by John Glaser Last week I wrote about the potential for the Obama administration’s Asia-Pivot strategy to inflame anti-colonialist sentiment. I lamented that Washington tries simply to get around this popular opposition to the military surge in East Asia instead of acknowledging that… Read More ›
Chevron, Exxon and BP among companies most responsible for climate change since dawn of industrial age, figures show Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent The climate crisis of the 21st century has been caused largely by just 90 companies, which between… Read More ›
A small store in Central City, Colorado has made history by becoming the first establishment in the US to be granted a license to sell recreational marijuana. Annie’s Central City Dispensary, located in a city founded during the Pike’s Peak… Read More ›
Friday, November 22 @ 9:00AMCity College of New YorkEnter campus at W 137th St and Amsterdam AveIn Front of the North Academic Center On October 28, City College administration suspended Tafadar “Taffy” Sourov and Khalil Vasquez, two students who led… Read More ›
We already know at least one member of the jury that acquitted George Zimmerman in the killing of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin has had second thoughts about their verdict. If any of them are feeling particularly bad today about their role in… Read More ›
George Zimmerman was arrested this afternoon and is being held in the Seminole County Jail in Sanford, Florida, according to the Orlando Sentinel and TMZ. Charges have not yet been announced, but Karla Ray of Eyewitness News 9 is reporting that Zimmerman was arrested after a domestic… Read More ›
In breaking news out of Leith, North Dakota, the Grant County Sheriff’s Department has confirmed that Neo-Nazi leader Craig Cobb, has been taken in to custody. Cobb and his supporter Kynan Dutton were both taken into custody. The incident began… Read More ›
via GayRVA.com Amari S Hill, a Baltimore native now residing in Richmond, was found shot dead in a Richmond’s South Side alley way last Sunday. Unconfirmed reports have stated that Hill was found shot multiple times, including a shot to the… Read More ›
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