A Day of Service Is a Disservice to the Truth of MLK, Jr.’s Life, Death and Witness
It is time for a slaves’ revolt against the mind manipulation served by the MLK Day of Service.
Chris Hedges: Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters.
Jeffrey Sachs: How the Neocons Subverted Russia’s Financial Stabilization in the Early 1990s
The U.S. was advised toward a "Marshall Plan" to help rebuild post-Soviet Russia as a democracy, but a key witness says the Cold War never ended, because we didn't want…
Alexander Hamilton’s Assault on Working People, Enslaved and Free
A new book, The Hamilton Scheme, explores a very different founder than the one we’ve come to think we know.
Farewell, the American Century
Rewriting the Past by Adding In What's Been Left Out.
As DNC Kicks Off, Palestine Solidarity Activists Look to 1964 for Inspiration
60 years ago, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party forced the Democrats to confront Jim Crow within their own party.
The Ghost of Hubert Humphrey Is Stalking Kamala Harris
The history of how Vice President Humphrey navigated the political terrain of the war in Vietnam has ominous parallels with how Vice President Harris has been dealing with the war…
Patrick Lawrence: Deaf and Blind: The Maladies of American Diplomats
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost Here is a modest proposal, nothing too radical, just good sense. Turn over Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan to the Iranian authorities on…
Arizona’s 1864 Abortion Law Was Made in a Women’s Rights Desert – Here’s What Life Was Like Then
By Calvin Schermerhorn / The Conversation Dora Juhl, a 15-year-old teenager, walked into Dr. Rosa Goodrich Boido’s obstetrical practice in Phoenix in January 1918. Juhl wanted to end her pregnancy.…
Is An American Parliament the Answer to Our Rotting Democracy?
Professor Max Stearns argues for a new system of government that would see the U.S. catch up with the rest of the world’s democratic systems.
Missing Links in Textbook History: War
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military- industrial complex.…
Bombing Muslims for Peace
Isn't It Time to Put Our Toy Soldiers Away (Along with Our Illusions)?
This Black History Month, Fight for the Freedom to Learn
More than ever, we need to protect our schools, libraries, and kids from censors and book banners. Our country will be better for it.
‘If I Was To Be Buried, I Would Want That on My Stone’
Click to subscribe on: Apple / Spotify / Google Play/ Amazon / YouTube / Rumble Norman Lear, who died this week at the age of 101, visited the KCRW studio…