Tiffany McCoy is the executive director of House Our Neighbors and one of the managers of the Proposition 1A campaign.
Unlike other war criminals from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger’s reputation has never received public rehabilitation. He hasn’t needed it — despite his murderous rap sheet, the media and political establishment has always fawned over him.
Newly released emails show an oddly friendly relationship between the Secret Service and the Oath Keepers militia ahead of the January 6 capitol riot. It’s a reminder that we still don’t know the full story of what happened that day.
Since coming to office in 2018, Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has made tackling inequality a key tenet of his Fourth Transformation. Millions have been lifted out of poverty, and the divide between rich and poor is shrinking.
Canada has long brandished its image as an honest international broker and champion of human rights. Its massive arms shipments to Saudi Arabia, one of the world’s most authoritarian regimes, paint a very different picture.
Bargaining between California State University and faculty has broken down after management offered an insultingly low salary increase. It’s time for the university to live up to its mission and support quality public education — instead of massive payouts to administrators.
In Germany, conservatives responded to the high-profile trial of a left-wing activist by creating a panic around the rise of left-wing extremism. But it is neo-Nazi violence that has actually increased in the country, and the far-right that has institutionalized itself.
Accusations of antisemitism are regularly used to silence advocacy of Palestinian liberation. Here, a British academic describes how Zionists smeared her as an antisemite and tried to get her fired for her public criticism of the Israeli occupation.
Democrats are calling Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney Fani Willis a “national hero” for her high-profile case against Donald Trump. Meanwhile, thousands of incarcerated people live in squalor in Fulton County jails, some dying without a day in court.
Donald Trump skipped the first GOP debate to chat with his courtier Tucker Carlson. Their conversation revealed the utter insincerity of their branding as opponents of the elite and the military-industrial complex.
Consumer boycotts have a storied history in labor struggles like the United Farm Workers’ organizing campaigns in the 1970s. But they’re difficult to pull off. Veteran union organizer Stephen Lerner explains when a boycott can work for workers.
In November, Mainers will decide whether they want to put two price-gouging private power companies out of business and take control of the state’s electric grid. So-called progressive consultants are being paid to oppose the measure.
The hearings on unidentified aerial phenomena unearthed no public evidence that should make us take claims of crashed alien spacecrafts and recovered “nonhuman biologics” seriously. But the federal government has done plenty to earn public distrust.
Even after more than one hundred days of a nationwide strike of Hollywood writers, studio heads are monumentally out of touch with the most basic demands that those writers are unified around winning.
The Chinese government deserves criticism for many things, including its repression of Uyghurs. But a style of vitriolic debate over US-China policy fed by the New York Times’ recent reporting on pro-China leftists in the United States is feeding a budding Red Scare.
Spain’s king has asked conservative leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo to try to form a government. Most MPs oppose him — and recent deals between the Socialists, left-wing Sumar and Catalan parties show that the broad left has every chance of staying in office.
This week, NYC mayor Eric Adams is touring Israel, celebrating its use of military force to effectively repress Palestinians and Israeli protesters alike. It’s a sad yet characteristic example of Democrats’ sycophantic relationship to the apartheid state.
Anyone who doubts whether the GOP is still Donald Trump’s party should watch last night’s Republican candidate debate. From the positions staked out to the aping of some of Trump’s signature catchphrases, even in absentia, Trump loomed largest onstage.
We keep being told the GOP has become a working-class party that rejects neoliberal economics. Someone should’ve told the Republican candidates at last night’s debate.
The vast majority of college students don’t go to the elite universities that dominate media attention. Many struggle daily to make ends meet — and new figures show that one in four undergraduates suffer from food insecurity.
The 2022 Inflation Reduction Act introduced modest drug pricing restrictions. In response, big pharma companies — which have seen record profits — are threatening to slow the rollout of a lifesaving drug.