We Need to Get the US Army Out of High Schools
A society that teaches violence is a violent society. We need to get the JROTC out of our schools.
81 Article(s) by: Jonah Walters
Jonah Walters is a writer and postdoctoral fellow at UCLA.
Puerto Rican Politics Will Never Be the Same
Disgraced Puerto Rican governor Ricardo Rosselló is slated to leave office today. It’s a victory for the mass protest movement — but as elites struggle to name a successor, the colony’s future remains uncertain.
Going Up the Country
The New Left and the “back-to-the-land” movement.
The House That Debt Built
Cleveland’s Quicken Loans Arena is a monument to the subprime mortgage crisis and the companies that caused it.
The Newsies Were Real
Picket lines once made the best playgrounds around.
The Beyoncé Treatment
No mother should be forced to give birth in conditions Beyoncé wouldn’t accept for herself.
Before the World Arrived
Just ten days before the 1968 Olympics, hundreds of protesters lay dead in a Mexico City square.
Obamacare and the End of Culture
Enjoy the soothing sounds of our national id.
How to Kill a Bill
Inside the secret war of America’s most effective assassins: Harry and Louise.
Talkin’ For-Profit Medicine Blues
A century of hard living and hospital bills in American song.
Choose Your Own Adventure
When your God that fails is Pol Pot.
Ending the Opioid Crisis
Trump finally declared mass opioid addiction a national emergency. But he won’t take on big pharma and the social roots of the crisis.
Beware Your Local Food Cooperative
Produce is serious business. A history of the co-op wars.
A Hero and a Priest
Remembering Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, the Sandinista priest and one-time United Nations General Assembly president who died earlier this month.
“Just Cause” and Its Aftermath
With the death of Manuel Noriega, we look back at the bloody 1989 invasion of Panama and the imperial wars that it helped justify.
Red Is the New Red, White, and Blue
Chinese investments in Latin America have skyrocketed over the past ten years. But not everyone is thrilled about the new superpower in the region.
Remembering Sandino
The Nicaraguan nationalist was assassinated eighty-three years ago last month.
Blood on His Hands
As head of SOUTHCOM, Trump’s pick for Homeland Security secretary facilitated atrocities across the Americas.
Class Struggle Postponed
In the Colombian city of Barrancabermeja, a century of violence has disintegrated working-class power.
Can They Count?
Blaming third-party voters for Trump's win isn't just bad politics. It's bad math.