Editorials

Stop racist executions!

The Supreme Court has backed the use of an execution drug used in U.S. prisons over the objection of death…

July 10, 2015

Ruling on ACA subsidies

Some 6.4 million people breathed a sigh of relief on June 25. On that day, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3…

July 6, 2015

No more Dylann Roofs!

The senseless and unspeakable massacre of nine Black people, ranging in ages from 26 to 87, in an historic church…

June 23, 2015

Zero tolerance for racism

An historic Black church in Charleston, S.C., has been hit by an act of racist terrorism. The nine people killed…

June 18, 2015

A very hot summer

It gets very hot in June in McKinney, Texas, 30 miles north of Dallas. So when 19-year-old high school senior…

June 16, 2015

Welcome, Caitlyn Jenner

Bruce Jenner, the 1976 decathlon champion and Olympic gold medalist, came out as transgender to an international audience when a…

June 9, 2015

DoJ, FIFA and imperialism

The sudden, dramatic arrest of nine high-ranking officials of the top worldwide soccer organization and five corporation executives on charges…

June 2, 2015

The real terrorist

On May 29, as part of its stated intentions to improve relations with Cuba, the United States formally removed the…

June 1, 2015

Monopoly and ‘free trade’

With the Obama administration seemingly hell-bent on getting its “Trans-Pacific Partnership” bill passed, which many critics say is not a…

May 31, 2015

Free Óscar López Rivera

At the 2013 funeral of South African President Nelson Mandela, who had been imprisoned by the U.S.-backed apartheid regime in…

May 20, 2015