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The criminalization of drug use was and still is an easy excuse to surveil and control populations.

All national police will refuse to enforce a curfew after days of deadly violence triggered by allegations of electoral fraud.

Rotten to the core; Funding the stung stingers; Texas style; Prairie homeless; The new Puerto Rican exodus; #MeToo strategically

The camera, just by its presence, altered human behavior. The motion picture camera changed the nature of acting. Among other things, it created that apparent oxymoron, the non-actor, the subject of an unusually rich and stimulating series now at the Film Society of Lincoln Center entitled "The Non-Actor".

The status quo is both undemocratic and morally repugnant. The only long-term alternative is to take control of our economy — and the moral imperative is to do so as soon as possible. Here is a plan to do that.

I have now spent 6 months on the ground in Ohio supporting local ‘Resistance’ groups, and helped a team of volunteer leaders build OPAL (Ohio Progressive Action Leaders), a statewide planning and coordinating body at the center of the ‘Resistance’ network in the state. Who are the “Resistance”? Why are they joining? What are their politics? And how do we invite them to join with progressives, and communities of color to build a left-led political majority in America?

Addressing our systems of White supremacy cannot be dismissed as “identity politics.”

Food manufacturers use language to magnify the desirability of a product and can lead you to believe it’s something to make you healthier—even though what’s inside that box may not be all that good for you.

Some of the challenges I faced during this process was seeing the disempowerment that has consistently been pushed on youth to believe that they cannot make a difference.

History professor Benjamin Madley has written the first comprehensive investigation of the catastrophe that befell California's Indigenous population from 1846 to 1873: a catastrophe that was entirely man-made. An American Genocide catalogs the killing of tens of thousands of Native people during those years, and proves just how complicit the Californian and United States government were in the slaughter. Order this important book by donating to Truthout today!