Social Justice

‘Fund the Police’ Backfired — and Gave Trump More Power Than Ever

In the past four years, mainstream Democrats have: nominated a former prosecutor for president; elected an ex-NYPD officer to run New York City; campaigned on deporting more people; funneled...

Don’t Panic

The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack. Look, the reelection of Donald Trump is bad news. A lot...

The Billion-Dollar Tumble

Kamala Harris’ devastating loss to Donald Trump was a catastrophic failure for the Democratic Party and the consultant...

Threats to the First Amendment in the Age of Trump

I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the...

A Moment for Determination, Not Fatalism

When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford...

Ending the Cycle of Revenge

With the first anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the death toll in Gaza climbing to more than 41,500, and Israel inflicting ever more extreme violence...

Bringing an End to the Cycle of Revenge

With the first anniversary of the October 7th Hamas attack on Israel approaching, the death toll in Gaza climbing to more than 41,500, and Israel inflicting ever more extreme...

Crossroads: The Military, the Monetary, the Mercenary

Having produced many anti-war mixes over time, I recently noticed an uptick in Military-Industrial Complex discussions. The unmonitored, oft-inconspicuous MIC, with its free-reign, carte-blanche...

Biden’s Cuba Policy Has the Island in Shambles

This story originally appeared on Drop Site News. HAVANA — The sight of hungry people scavenging through dumpsters and panhandling was once more common in...

Dirty Cops, Dirty Data

This is the third and final part in a series of stories from The Real News examining the past 30-plus years of police and...

Two Government Bodies Determined Israel Deliberately Blocked Aid to Gaza. Blinken Ignored Them.

The U.S. government’s two foremost authorities on humanitarian assistance concluded this spring that Israel had deliberately blocked deliveries of food and medicine into Gaza.The...