Black and Blue
Mr. FishDwayne Booth (a.k.a., Mr. Fish) is a cartoonist and freelance writer, has been published in many reputable and prestigious magazines, journals and newspapers. In addition to Harper’s Magazine, his…
Pandemic News – Then and Now
A poem ripped from the headlines by a queer who remembers
Teacher Wisdom: K-12 Students Cannot Return to Campus This Fall
Physical distancing at schools is impossible. Now is the time to prepare robust distance learning and close the technology gap.
Plague Journal #10: What Kids Remember
Whether it was the duck and cover drills of last centry, or wearing masks and social distancing today, children are asked to weather disasters of adult leadership.
Sarah Holt: A Global Look at the Virus That Upended the World
The filmmaker's NOVA documentary, “Decoding Covid-19,” offers a hopeful account of the international cooperation that has stemmed from the unprecedented crisis.
Fundamentalist Pandemics
A Tomgram: Juan Cole, Iran and the U.S., an irony of curious affinity.
FOH 64: Dunbar-Ortiz on the Pandemic’s Impact on Native Americans
Legendary activist and author of "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" also discusses the connections between the Second Amendment, white supremacy and settler colonialism.
[Excerpt] ‘Bernie’s Brooklyn: How Growing Up in the New Deal City Shaped Bernie Sanders’ Politics’
Far from being totally alien to the American way, the sort of socialism Bernie advocates was commonplace where he grew up.
Foreign Correspondent: Michael Flynn’s Forgotten Turkish Connection
Before Russiagate, the former national security advisor was an operative for Turkey, tilting foreign policy against the Kurds.
U.S. Regional Imperialism: Big Sticks, and Even Bigger Guns
Our history in Latin America is marked by arrogance and aggression. Is what's happening in Venezuela any different?
The End of Privacy?
FROM CNN: It took the attacks of September 11, 2001 to shove aside the previous decade’s phobia of mass surveillance, and usher in an era where many of us imagined…
What Impact Has Coronavirus Had on Policing?
Reposted with permission of the Real News Network
So Long to American Exceptionalism
in Donald Trump’s America, we’re inside the community of nations in a grim new way: as fellow patients, grievers, and supplicants in search of food and shelter, along with so…
Seven Ways Trump’s Mendacity Surrendered Nation to Covid-19
Many Americans believe that Trump ignored the COVID-19 virus until too late. There has, however, been no systematic analysis of how Trump’s denials and related delay injured our country’s response.…
Plague Journal #9: Follow the Money, Discover the Stench
There is talk – just talk so far – about cancelling some of the massive, totally unnecessary death culture abundance. But just how much we even spend on it is…