A Raised Voice

Claudia Roth Pierpont The New Yorker
How Nina Simone turned the movement into music.

Illegal Immigrants, Dangerous Border - One Story

They leave their communities and loved ones behind for a better life in the United States. The journey is perilous and survival is not guaranteed. Walk in the footsteps of Omar Lopez. 

Deported: Kelly's Story

The story 10-year-old Kelly, who is given the choice of being deported with her father, an undocumented immigrant, or staying in the U.S. if she agrees to be put up for adoption.
 

Pope Francis Reinstates Revolutionary Nicaraguan Priest

John Hooper The Guardian
On August 1st Pope Francis reinstated Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, the former Nicaraguan Foreign Minister and President of the United Nations General Assembly, as a practicing priest. Pope John Paul II had suspended Father d'Escoto from his ministry in 1985 for serving in the Revolutionary Sandinista Government of Nicaragua, and as part of his concerted campaign against the influence of Liberation Theology within the Catholic Church.

How the U.S. Does Latin American Coups in the New Era

Maurice Lemoine Le Monde Diplomatique
While the United States is "still in the coup-support game" in Latin America, nowadays the U.S. relies more on the mobilization of so-called "civil society" to destabilize democratically-elected progressive governments and make the country ungovernable. Like before, U.S.-backed military coups take place under the guise of establishing stability. But unlike before, today the military returns to its barracks, leaving a civilian dictatorship in power.

AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs

Aaron Smith and Janna Anderson Pew Research Center
Respondents gave their answers to the following prompts: The economic impact of robotic advances and AI: Self-driving cars, intelligent digital agents that can act for you, and robots are advancing rapidly. Will networked, automated, artificial intelligence (AI) applications and robotic devices have displaced more jobs than they have created by 2025?

Even Standard & Poor's Has a Problem with Growing Inequality

Thomas Mucha Global Post
A new report by Standard & Poor's, one of the country's Big Three credit-rating agencies, points to increasing income inequality and the danger it poses to continued U.S. economic growth. In its report,. "How Increasing Income Inequality is Dampening U.S. Economic Growth, And Possible Ways to Change the Tide," S&P cites "all sorts of nasty" economic and political problems that flow from this growing inequality, but few solutions.

The Bitter Fruits of Greece's "Stabilization"

Frederick Reese Mint Press
In moves likened to the privatization of East Germany’s state-owned enterprises following unification, international finance has placed the privatization of Greece's public sector, one of the most developed in Europe, in the hands of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED). This "extra-legal organization" has close ties to the banks and no accountability for the impact of so-called austerity measures on Greece's increasingly impoverished population.