Articles

Kurdish rebels are establishing self-rule in war-torn Syria, resembling the Zapatista experience and providing a democratic alternative for the region.

Black music sounds the way it does because musicians are not at the table trying to make 21st century music. Musicians need to stop hating and get busy creating …

ALEC's 40th annual meeting in Chicago was met by over a thousand protesters. Local groups in Texas are planning protest activities for Wednesday, July 30.

Poverty is structural, created by policies and practices that benefit some people at excruciating cost to others - particularly people of color and women.

Systematic undercounting of sexual assaults in the US disguises a hidden rape crisis.

An interview with Nicolas Krameyer of Amnesty International France.

In this interview, American artist Erin Currier discusses her work, how it celebrates the underprivileged and dispossessed people of countries to which she travels, and her thoughts on revolution …

Electronic monitoring costs less than incarceration, but in the rush for a quick fix, we are overlooking key questions of human rights, private corrections company profiteering and potential threats …

A July 25 editorial by The New York Times shows how a reasonable and ostensibly balanced text can mask deeply biased pro-Israel sentiments.

The federal government has made some efforts to reduce the violence, but there is a long way to go before indigenous women are afforded their full civil rights.