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How Elections Are Certified in Battleground States
With voting underway in the presidential election, voters should be prepared to hear about election certification: the post-election formality that marks the end of the vote-counting process. In the...
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Kamala Harris Doesn’t Inspire the Black Political Leadership We Need
Back away from the pitchfork! I am well aware of the dangers the right presents. I am worried about the threat of Project 2025. I am terrified of a second Trump presidency that could thrust us into a...
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Israel’s Argument of Self-Defence in Lebanon is Cynical at Best
“When a state carries out aggression, its propaganda system has the responsibility to justify the act and suppress the reasons for it in favour of acceptable pretexts.” — Noam Chomsky 1 One essential...
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Money Pit
This will be Keir Starmer’s HS2: a hugely expensive scheme that will either be abandoned, scaled back or require massive extra funding to continue, after many billions have been spent. The government’s...
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Economic Reality and Legitimacy
We have an economic system that is on trial. Those of us on the Left and progressives (L&P) have already reached a verdict. What is in question is legitimacy. There are huge swathes of people:-...
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Rashid Khalidi: “Israel Is Acting With Full US Approval”
Israel’s onslaught against Gaza has now continued for more than a year; it shows no sign of ending, and Benjamin Netanyahu’s government has now expanded the war into Lebanon, resulting in more carnage....
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Carbon Capture Means More Pollution for Black Communities in Cancer Alley
Rosemary Green and her husband live mere feet away from a massive chemical storage depot that hugs the Mississippi River just west of New Orleans. Over 200 tanks of the International-Matex Tank...
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The ‘Blue Economy’ Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking the Ocean Can Be Run Like a...
In response to the increasing global demand for resources and the economic pursuits that come with it, attention on the world’s oceans continues to grow. But how should marine resources be properly...
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Big Tech Markets Its Snake Oil as Progressivism
The agglomeration of Third Way politics and the technosphere is one of the more insidious developments of our time. It’s as close to a real-life Borg as we’ve yet seen outside the fictional universe of...
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Chalking Bans and ID Checks at Protests Repress Palestine Solidarity on Campus
As the genocide in Gaza rages on, U.S. universities welcomed students, faculty and staff back this fall by rolling out a red carpet of repression. The dedication to stifling pro-Palestine speech and...
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Time for a United Front Against Trump and Realism About Harris
With Election Day just three weeks off and voting already underway in some states, the race for president is down to the wire. Progressives could make the difference. While no one in their left mind...
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Israel is Turning Northern Gaza Into a Killing Cage
With the full support of the Biden administration, Israel is waging a merciless war of extermination against the 400,000 Palestinians remaining in the northern Gaza Strip as the government of Benjamin...
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‘No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine’: Arundhati...
Writer and activist Arundhati Roy has been awarded the PEN Pinter Prize 2024. This is an annual award set up by English PEN in the memory of playwright Harold Pinter. Shortly after having been named...
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Richmond’s Progressive Alliance Has Won Elections and Made City Hall Better...
On a Saturday evening last spring, Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) co-chair Claudia Jimenez hosted a high-spirited rally and party with 200 supporters of her re-election campaign for the Richmond...
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How We the People Conduct Our Elections
“I love working the polls!” a friend told me recently. “It strengthens my trust in the whole process. And it’s fun getting to help eligible voters flex their civic muscles.” I think about my friend’s...
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Indigenous Peoples Day, Some History
I was very surprised a few days ago to see the local bank where I have an account displaying a sign outside the front door which referred to what they called, “Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day.”...
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How Kenya’s Youth, Middle Classes and Working Poor Joined Forces
I remember Kenya’s June 25 protests like they were yesterday. The energy on the streets of Nairobi was frenetic, filled with the sound of whistles, motorcycle honks, vuvuzelas (long horns used to cheer...
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‘Hope Goes a Long Way’: Guaranteed Income a Lifeline for Ex-Prisoners
Kevin Scott is a former prisoner and the programme director for Community Spring, a non-profit organisation in Gainesville, Florida. We caught up with Kevin at the 22nd Basic Income Guarantee...
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Gustavo Petro: The Politicians of the Future and the Blockages of the Present
Recent times have given plenty of reason for pessimism. There have been many strong threats to three sources of stability and civility in social relations: democracy, peace and the minimum guarantee of...
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Climate Disasters Only Slightly Shift the Political Needle
Even amid what seems like a never-ending series of deadly and destructive climate extremes across the country, including heat waves in the Southwest, wildfires in California and hurricanes and flooding...
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