Subjects Archives: Culture

The voice of millions of union members was shamefully missing this election.

Challenges to Zionism in the late 1960s and 1970s sparked an effort to redefine antisemitism focused on defending Israel while attacking the political Left. This resulted in the IHRA definition and the assault on Palestine activism we see today.

The relevance of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s most famous work today on its centennial.

Francis’ Cuban saga began in March 2014, when he wrote personal letters to Barack Obama and Raúl Castro. He offered the Vatican as neutral ground for discreet dialogue, which took place sometimes in public and sometimes in absolute confidentiality. He did so without fanfare or press releases, as is usually the case with efforts that pursue truly momentous goals.

Since its initial organizational expression in 1900, the phrase Pan-Africanism has been expressed in many different forms.

A new book chronicles how Labour strategist Morgan McSweeney used ‘any means necessary’ to destroy Corbyn as leader and install Starmer.

The story is co-reported with my Breaking Points colleague Saagar Enjeti. We’ll be covering it on the program Monday morning.

Bob McChesney, that prescient seer on the subject of media consolidation and much more, died last month.

‘The Ethics of Belief,’ an 1877 essay by Cambridge mathematician and philosopher William K. Clifford, begins with the story of a fictional shipowner whose seagoing vessel, he himself acknowledges, might not be as sound as should be.

A targeted program has been undertaken to develop sustainable livelihoods for thousands of families suffering under extreme poverty.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wants to end Cuba’s international medical brigades, which have provided essential healthcare to millions of people across the globe.

The attack on the Indigo 11 is part of a systematic effort to disrupt and contain the growing Palestine solidarity movement.

El Salvador is a human rights nightmare comparable to the 1980s death squad era.

CounterSpin interview with Jessica González on Trump’s FCC.

Ten years after one student’s bold action a month earlier inspired protests which led to the removal of Cecil John Rhodes’ statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Heike Becker recounts this historical occasion by linking this as well as subsequent and earlier protests to broader conversations about decolonization and concerns about racism, marginalization and inequality.

Jennifer Berkshire has been writing insightfully about the rightwing attacks on public schools and on education for many years. S

In a scathing letter, Mahmoud Khalil writes from an ICE detention center in Louisiana, blasting Columbia University’s role in his abduction and the targeting of other student activists by the Trump administration.

The far-right Antigua Orden group led a xenophobic protest calling for the expulsion of Haitian migrants, echoing Trump-style anti-immigrant rhetoric.

The meeting defined priorities such as developing a feminist economy and expanding political participation in Communard Union territories.

You don’t have to be Christian or a religious person or even a supporter of Pope Francis to appreciate his willingness to speak truth to power, and his efforts to get U.S. Catholic Bishops to do the same.