3+ hour, 25+ min ago  (760+ words) This summer, a'seismic wave ripped through the foundations of an ossified Democratic establishment as a'swell of left-wing challengers channeled disgust at party elites to jolt the entire political'system.' On June 23, a'slate of candidates emerged victorious with endorsements and support from…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago  (461+ words) I urge you guys to freeze the rent, because we want our students to'succeed." That was the appeal Alyssa Wright made to the nine members of New York City's Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) earlier this month, a'little more than halfway…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (325+ words) Set amid this strip is the refurbished King's Theater'impossibly grand inside, soaring carved wooden columns with twisting, golden wooden flowers and fleur-de-lis and rich crimson curtains dripping in gold fringe. Spectacular. Its unlikely grandeur is somehow enhanced by the fact…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (368+ words) All 15 of the people indicted are charged with "conspiracy to impede or injure a'federal officer," which activists describe as an effort to use draconian charges to crush Minnesota's widely celebrated organizing against the armed federal agents who descended on the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (542+ words) Indigenous people are resisting continued attempts to exploit their land, air, and water. Rural white folks, some of whom voted for Donald Trump, are now going door to door, outraged about rising electricity costs and water'shortages. "There's this big techno-feudal…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (257+ words) Progressive candidates endorsed by Sen. Bernie Sanders swept to victory on Tuesday in Democratic primaries across the'US. Sanders-backed candidates in California also put in strong showings, with former San Francisco city supervisor Jane Kim advancing to the general election in…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (624+ words) PORT SUDAN'The rain falls gently on the tin roof of a'cramped workshop as Areej Hussein cradles her overheating i Phone 15. Around her, 11 young women sit, their stories of displacement heavy in the sweltering'air. The film project emerged between filmmaker Mohammed…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (577+ words) These poems come from my forthcoming collection, When the Arab Apocalypse Comes to America, a'book produced by Palestinian grief and anticolonial resistance, in this genocidal'moment.' While poetry cannot materially save us, it can become a'vessel through which one arrives at…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago  (1694+ words) New jail construction is quietly booming across the United States. Some may be surprised to learn that during the most intense jail-building years, from 1990 to 2005, a'new facility opened every 10'days. There are nearly 2'million people presently caged in more than…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago  (213+ words) New comics on the state of the world by Brian Mc Fadden, Ruben Bolling, Tom Tomorrow and Jen Sorensen. Turn the Tables on the Oligarchy and Strike! New comics on the state of the world by Brian Mc Fadden, Ruben…...