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The Entire United States Is Now the Reichstag Building | posted on Sept. 26, 2021

The Republicans smell blood in the water. Is it possible to overstate how dangerous this situation has become?

Adolph Reed Jr. · 267 views

[Essay] | Nothing Left, by Adolph Reed Jr. | Harper's Magazine - March 2014

The long, slow surrender of American liberals

Adolph Reed Jr. · 247 views

Here's Exactly How to Respond When Someone You Love Says Climate Change Isn't Real

There's overwhelming scientific consensus on climate change; 97 percent of scientists agree that humans have created conditions that are drastically reshaping the planet's climate, with...

JR Thorpe · 1,424 views

Black Politics After 2016

Many pundits and scholars have remarked on how the 2016 election reflected the significance of race in American politics. One strain of commentary to that effect contends that Trump’s...

Adolph Reed, Jr · 698 views

Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee

Giving everyone a job is the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace.

Mark Paul, William Darity Jr and Darrick Hamilton · 1,201 views

Letter From a Birmingham Jail (1963)

My Dear Fellow Clergymen:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. · 4,309 views

How Racial Disparity Does Not Help Make Sense of Patterns of Police Violence

Some readers will know that I’ve contended that, despite its proponents’ assertions, antiracism is not a different sort of egalitarian alternative to a class politics but is a class...

Adolph Reed, Jr. · 1,166 views

Facebook Doesn't Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them

The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives.

Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr., Surya Mattu · 9,256 views

The Limits of Anti-Racism

Antiracism is a favorite concept on the American left these days. Of course, all good sorts want to be against racism, but what does the word mean exactly?

Adolph Reed Jr. · 2,011 views

Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race

Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.

Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr. · 6,523 views

The Pedagogy of the Meaning of Racism: Reconciling a Discordant Discourse

Racism is a term on which a great deal of discourse does and should turn in all realms of social work theory, practice, policy, and research. Because it is a concept heavily freighted...

Carlos Hoyt, Jr. · 4,417 views

Vote for the Lying Neoliberal Warmonger: It's Important

An explanation for why defeating Donald Trump—despite what we know about Hillary Clinton—should be the left's primary national electoral objective this November

Adolph Reed Jr. · 13,282 views

The Battle Over Trump's Taj Mahal Is a Battle for Us All

What those striking are now bravely confronting in Atlantic City should resonate deeply with American workers, their unions, and beyond

Adolph Reed Jr. · 6,938 views

From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not so Much

By far the most intellectually and politically interesting thing about the recent "exposé" of Spokane, WA, NAACP activist Rachel Dolezal’s racial status is the conundrum it has posed for...

Adolph Reed Jr. · 1,255 views

Police In Oakland Used Tactics That Aren’t Permitted In War Zones

A week ago, police fired rubber bullets, bean bags, and canisters into the crowd of protesters in Oakland. Their brutality almost cost Marine veteran Scott Olsen his life. And it turns...

Stephen D. Foster Jr. · 3,957 views

Semper Fi: Occupy Marines Bringing Reinforcements To Occupy The Nation

What began as the gathering of just a few US Marines has now become a major organized movement to get Marines and military personnell of all branches to Occupy America nationwide. You...

Stephen D. Foster Jr. · 5,014 views

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