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Haiti’s current form of “checkpoint governance” represents a structural transformation in how politics works in the country. What defines Haiti now is an impasse—a condition of blockage and immobility that traps millions in place.

Since 2021, the Eastern Kentucky Remembrance Project has been planting markers memorializing Black residents killed by racist violence. On 31 May, a historical marker was placed outside the former Wayland jail where Fred Shannon was killed in 1924.

Who You Gonna Call? (1965), THIS Is Why Haiti Is So Impoverished (1825), ‘Fight—Don't Starve!’ (1930), One Pipeline Too Many (2020), Happy Birthday to The Nation (1865), Mercury Poisoning at Its Worst (1975), Cuba Stands Up to Uncle Sam (1960)

Mike German, an ex-FBI agent, said immigration agents hiding their identities ‘highlights the illegitimacy of actions’

GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

Southern lawmakers have neglected basic worker protections and disinvested in social safety net programs while offering hefty subsidies to corporations, privatizing public goods, and giving the wealthy big tax breaks.

While the most horrific acts of injustice in German courtrooms may have occurred during the reign of Hitler, in many ways the courts had been corrupted by right-wing extremism years before, and helped facilitate his rise to power.

The court’s ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood twists logic, common sense, and the law to further the right-wing assault on bodily autonomy.

An anthropologist investigates how archaeology helped the U.S. colonize the Panama Canal Zone—just as the current U.S. government threatens to retake it.

The idea of non-reformist reforms is that you work within your existing system to build something new, while also winding down the extractive system.