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The United States government has only one responsibility and that is to support Puerto Rico’s right to self-determination. No political leader in the United States has the right to determine what is right for Puerto Rico.

Based on the bestselling novel, Netflix’s The White Tiger is a wry, blistering critique of inequality in India — and elsewhere.

The Capitol rampage turns the media world upside down

Because of Portside, a lot of people who are determined to make their own history will have the tools to do it -- the emotional sustenance, the information, the analysis, the connections -- to meet the extraordinary situation we all confront.

Twitter canceling Trump’s account shows that real political power in the United States shifted from government to corporations.

Hank Aaron will be remembered for his astonishing achievements as one of the all-time great baseball players, not least because he broke Babe Ruth’s home run record. But Aaron also ceaselessly fought to defend black people in a hostile racist society

Ruth Milkman, Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020), a Review by Lola Loustaunau

I’m not the first voice to plead that we never go back to normal.

The Massive and Unseen Costs of America’s Post-9/11 Wars at Home and Abroad.

Every part of this country, north south east and west, owes its origin and wealth to our “peculiar institution” as well as other less notorious programs of government sanctioned/ignored exploitation and murder of the poor, immigrants, women.