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The Hypocrisy of Kirk and the Far Right on Free Speech

The point is, has the media followed up on the Epstein files lately? Has that headline been buried by his…

1 month ago

The Tomato Soups of Andalusia

In the same way that locals prefer to drink Tinto de Verano, while the tourists drink their overpriced sangria, salmorejo…

1 month ago

Rhyming With Hitler’s Germany

His murder was reprehensible. All murders are. But a murdered hatemonger is a hatemonger nonetheless. And that’s who Kirk was:…

1 month ago

photos from the edge19 – BERKELEY’S STUDENT AND WORKING CLASS HISTORY

But Berkeley also has a working class history that is much less discussed. In the years after World War 2…

2 months ago

From Iraq to Standing Rock

On July 4, About Face launched their “Right to Refuse Campaign,” an initiative that argues that service members deserve legal…

2 months ago

From 9/11 To Trump’s Death Threat To American Democracy

They hijacked public discourse about Islam, first by stoking fears with emotional, attention-grabbing messaging, then by forging ties with established…

2 months ago

From Guernica to Gaza

Far from its victims, air power remains the height of modernity. And yet, as the monk Thomas Merton concluded in…

2 months ago

When the Bully Swings, Swing Back

Then, of course, there’s Texas’ mid-decade gerrymandering of districts at the request of the OF. The Texas Republicans line up…

2 months ago

Foundations of Labor Law Threatened —

The Trump agenda, laid out in Project 2025, is “very much in keeping with 50 years of right-wing strategy around…

2 months ago

Why Lelo Juarez Chose Self-Deportation

Since discovering in the 1980s the huge profits to be made in federal contracts, the company has become one of…

2 months ago