John Bachtell

LATEST ARTICLES BY John Bachtell

• U.S.

  

  Gerald Reed freed after 31 years of wrongful imprisonment

  April 2, 2021 By John Bachtell

  He was one of hundreds of African Americans tortured by Chicago police into making a false confessions.

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• Politics

  

  Biden faces big challenges as he rolls back Trump immigration policy

  March 29, 2021 By John Bachtell

  Makes no apology for ending practices of child separation and leaving kids to starve on the other side of the border.

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• U.S.

  

  Anger mounts as police cover for Atlanta murderer of Asian women

  March 18, 2021 By John Bachtell

  The anti-AAPI hate crimes also expose a sliver of the horrible social and economic conditions faced by AAPI communities, made worse by the pandemic.

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• News

  

  GOP, Senate filibuster in way of ‘next great Civil Rights bill’

  March 5, 2021 By John Bachtell

  If the voting rights legislation in the For the People Act doesn’t pass the Senate, Republicans will be on the road back to power—potentially for decades.

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• News

  

  Haaland on track to make history as first Native American cabinet secretary

  February 26, 2021 By John Bachtell

  The Interior Department which Haaland would head "has the most impact on our daily lives - land use, water use, health care, education, and tribal governance," Judith LeBlanc, director of Native Organizers Alliance, said.

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• News

  

  Republicans oppose the American Rescue Plan at their peril

  February 23, 2021 By John Bachtell
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• Opinion

  

  For the sake of democracy, kill off the Senate filibuster

  February 17, 2021 By John Bachtell

  The arcane Senate practice enforces a form of Jim Crow and discriminates against people in states with large working-class populations.

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• News

  

  Bill Davis—beloved labor and peace activist, Communist leader—lost to COVID

  February 16, 2021 By John Bachtell

  Bill Davis, 1942-2021.

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