politics
Racist voter suppression tilting elections in GOP’s favor
April 24, 2018This modern day 'poll tax' is a racist effort to prevent African-American and Latino voters from exercising their democratic rights and casting their ballots.
Read morePolitical apocalypse for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens
April 23, 2018Swung at full speed, a 20-pound sledgehammer creates around 8,500 pounds of force upon impact, crushing anything and everything in its path.
Read moreUpselling and down-strangling in ‘The Americans’
April 23, 2018The pressure, always intense for our undercover couple of Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, is ratcheting steadily upward.
Read moreChinese media interviews U.S. Communist Party leader
April 20, 2018CPUSA leaders John Bachtell talks with Chinese media about Marxism, the process of social change, and the need for greater international Communist cooperation.
Read morePolitically-charged rap finally gets its due with Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer
April 19, 2018Hip hop has battled against public disapproval and respectability politics for decades, but Lamar's Pulitzer signals a change.
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