
There’s Absolutely No Good Argument for Keeping the Death Penalty
Virginia recently became the first Southern state to abolish the death penalty. That’s a good step — we should end the barbaric punishment everywhere else too.

Virginia recently became the first Southern state to abolish the death penalty. That’s a good step — we should end the barbaric punishment everywhere else too.

White-collar crime is barely prosecuted in the United States. It’s time for that to change.

Kathy Hochul can’t just parrot Republican talking points about crime to win reelection as New York’s governor — she needs a positive vision for voters. Currently, that vision is absent, and it’s reflected in her low poll numbers.

How George H. W. Bush paved the way for Trumpism.

We sat down with legendary rapper and New York icon Cormega to talk about his long career, battles with a brutal criminal justice system, the economics of the hip-hop industry, and why he decided to vote for Bernie Sanders.

Put the mainstream Democrats aside. After the midterms, more left-wing insurgents are going to the House, Bernie Sanders has two strong allies in the Senate, and progressive ballot measures passed everywhere. Election night was a good night for the Left.

Kamala Harris has matched every one of her progressive achievements with conservative ones.
The prison reforms on the table are unlikely to make even a dent in the forces that keep millions behind bars.

On violence and democracy.

In a new book, Rebecca Burns and David Dyen document Steve Mnuchin's charmed, care-free life of looting. The tragedy is, there's more than one of him.

The United States' dependence on the labor of immigrants is exactly what confirms their rights. And that's the last thing the Donald Trumps of the world want to confront.

Individual Democrats have made strong statements against the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil. The bulk of the party and its leadership has offered silence or mealymouthed equivocation.
"Good gentrifiers" and the new Brooklyn aesthetic.

Anyone who examines privately owned US prisons has to come to the conclusion that they are abhorrent and must be eliminated. But they can also be low-hanging fruit used by opportunistic Democrats to ignore the much larger problem of — and solutions to — mass incarceration.

The outrageous shooting of an unarmed black man in Kenosha shows the difference between elected officials’ kind words and actual progress. The movement against police violence will be fighting for a long time.

Lincoln is not a movie about Reconstruction, of course; it’s a movie about old white men in beards and wigs heroically working together to save grateful black people.

The wealthiest 1 percent are evading about a quarter-trillion dollars of owed taxes every year, and corporations are audited at half the rate of poor people. Something is deeply wrong here.

Socialists and progressives won a few key demands in the New York state budget battles. But overall, Gov. Kathy Hochul rammed through an awful budget that will make life much worse for the state of New York’s working class.