The Equity Docket: The Architecture of Exclusion

Terrance Sullivan The Progressive
The Education Department’s reclassification of ‘professional degrees’ is the latest installment in a long history of excluding Black people, women, and working-class people.

Tango Lessons

Cesar Chelala CounterPunch
Tango has long chronicled those times. In doing so, it continues to offer a vocabulary for confronting a world where decency is in short supply and moral responsibility and kindness even more so.

Too Big To Heal

Helen Santoro, Joel Warner The Lever
The U.S. economy is growing ever more reliant on the health care crisis.

Democrats Lost Working-Class Voters’ Trust

Interview with Jared Abbott and René Rojas Jacobin
Thanks to decades of failing to seriously address the economic struggles of ordinary Americans, the Democratic Party brand has cratered in the Rust Belt and is increasingly flagging with working-class voters of all races.

Only a Pawn in Their Game

Bob Dylan
Troubadour and Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan reminds us that the System, what we used to call "the Man," is still pulling the strings of repression.

I Taught an Octopus To Play Piano

It took six months, and it was a tortuous and sometimes frustrating journey. But who would have bet it could be done?

Across the Borderline

Adam Aguilar, Flaco Jimenez, Dan Crary and Byron Berline performing Across the Borderline at the concert filming of the Texas Music Extravaganza in San Antonio, TX