Voters Tuesday will pass judgment on an existential emergency facing the nation. Despite the efforts of some Democrats to normalize a frequently common wave favoring the party out of office, the code blue alarm bells this year have a chillingly different resonance. Warning signs are everywhere. — An escalation of…

Reports of the biggest rise in public support for unions in a half century is an encouraging response to the chokehold the policies of neoliberalism have held over U.S. workers for decades that led to a staggering inequality, the weakening of unions, and facilitated the ascendancy of the right. It…

Looking at the growing hijacking of California recalls by a loose array of the right — from Republican Party operatives to billionaires to proponents of privatizing schools to Trumpian militia groups — it almost defies historical memory to consider that the recall mechanism was adopted in California as an anti-corporate…

“The doctor didn’t show up, but the hospital ER still charged $1,012.” “That’ll be $45,843 a month for 12 months, please.” “The ER charged him $6,500 for six stitches.” On January 31, the California Assembly is poised to vote on the Guaranteed Health Care for All Act (CalCare), AB 1400…

The welcome conviction of the three white assailants, Gregory McMichael, Travis McMichael and William Bryan, Jr., on most of the counts for the murder of the Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, Ga should not obscure the deeply rooted flaws of a legal system plagued by the legacy of structural racism that…

It’s as if the last 400 years of North American history did not occur. Much of the tortured corporate media and conservative Democratic analysis following Tuesday’s election went to great pains to assure us that racism was not a critical driver in the Republican victory in the Virginia governor’s race. …

Echoes of the past heard in Texas’ attack on history and education For a view of the real-life fallout of the fanatical campaign to stamp out the teaching of the history of U.S. racism and its legacy today, meet James Whitfield. Whitfield is the first Black principal at Colleyville Heritage…

The long roots of anti-vax, anti-mask “freedom” and “liberty” rhetoric There are words like Freedom Sweet and wonderful to say. On my heart-strings freedom sings All day everyday. There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I knew You would know why. –…

Anyone wondering why critical race theory has prompted a mad dash among right wing legislators and school boards to extinguish it need only look at similar obsessions that have made U.S. democracy an endangered species. Texas, predictably, is jumping on the bandwagon with the hard right Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick…