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

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

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

Adolph Reed Jr. · The long, slow surrender of American liberals

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

JR Thorpe · 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...

Black Politics After 2016

Adolph Reed, Jr · 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...

Why We Need a Federal Job Guarantee

Mark Paul, William Darity Jr and Darrick Hamilton · Giving everyone a job is the best way to democratize the economy and give workers leverage in the workplace.

Letter From a Birmingham Jail (1963)

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. · My Dear Fellow Clergymen:

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

Adolph Reed, Jr. · 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...

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

Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr., Surya Mattu · The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives.

The Limits of Anti-Racism

Adolph Reed Jr. · 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?

Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race

Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr. · Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.

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

Carlos Hoyt, Jr. · 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...

Vote for the Lying Neoliberal Warmonger: It's Important

Adolph Reed Jr. · 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

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

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

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

Adolph Reed Jr. · 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...

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

Stephen D. Foster Jr. · 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...

Semper Fi: Occupy Marines Bringing Reinforcements To Occupy The Nation

Stephen D. Foster Jr. · 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...

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