Truthout
Op-Ed
These Three Issues Prove Our Movements Are Way Ahead of Clinton and Trump
Activists are too busy building a better world from the ground up to heed the grand plans of presidential hopefuls.
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Forty Years of Reaganism Behind This Disastrous Train Crash
If we want a safe and modern rail system that will save lives and be the envy of the world, we need to reject Reaganism.
Things Fall Apart: An Insider’s Account of the EPA
Technically-sounding “pesticides” are destabilizing our natural world and our lives.
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Trump, Clinton and the Illusion of Everlasting US Hegemony
Both Trump and Clinton believe US hegemony should be an everlasting reality. We need to change the conversation.
The US Is a Country, Not a Business
Thanks to Reaganomics, we have nearly lost our country.
Safe [White] Spaces
My time at Brooklyn Co-op taught me a lot about how liberal democratic spaces fail to identify intersectionalities of exploitation.
Living While Black in the US Is to Resist Being Defined by Others
How I define myself and my Black joy, pain, hope or sadness in those moments is insignificant to them and how they define us.
It’s Time to Replace the Estate Tax With a Progressive Inheritance Tax
Gross concentrations of wealth, especially the inherited kind, are the death of democratic societies.
The 9/11 Families Deserve Their Day in Court Against Saudi Arabia
This week the House and Senate are expected to vote on whether to override the President's veto of the Justice Against Sponsors of Terror Act.
A Strategy to Stop the Funding Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline
A key pipeline loan is still pending, and banks can be vulnerable to public pressure.