Analysis
Jobless rate drops, but for the wrong reason
May 4, 2018Unfortunately, this dip was accompanied by a fall in labor force participation.
Read more‘The Chinese Exclusion Act’: PBS documentary shows commonalities with current immigration struggles
May 4, 2018Current immigration debates revive echoes of the race-based system which defined U.S. immigration policy for well over half a century.
Read more‘Occupation of the American Mind’: Documentary on Israel’s effective propaganda war
April 19, 2018This is a film best seen in a group that can take the time after a viewing to discuss what role Americans can play going forward.
Read moreHopeless in Gaza? A talk with scholar Norman Finkelstein
March 29, 2018“The nadir of the Palestinian struggle is now,” says distinguished but controversial scholar Norman G. Finkelstein.
Read more“Seven Seconds”: Netflix series explores how the system fails Black Americans
March 21, 2018The problem of racism, and the failure of the justice system to protect Black lives in the United States, goes beyond instances of police brutality and cop acquittals.
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