This Is What It Feels Like to Be Hunted by Drones

Malik Jalal The Independent
I know the Americans think me an opponent of their drone wars. They are right; I am. Singling out people to assassinate, and killing nine of our innocent children for each person they target, is a crime of unspeakable proportions. Their policy is as foolish as it is criminal, as it radicalises the very people we are trying to calm down.

Bernie Is Going All the Way

Chris Hayes and Nick Confessore, political reporter for the New York Times, discuss further evidence that the Sanders campaign will not concede before the convention.

Sanders Allies Plot Meeting to Discuss Future of the Movement

Alex Seitz-Wald MSNBC
The progressive movement that supported Sanders existed before his campaign and will continue after it. But Sanders has expanded it and unified it in a way that creates the potential for a powerful post-election force in politics if it can retain at least some cohesion.

Prince and Politics In Reagan's America

Jordy Cummings Red Wedge
The Reaper has been busy in 2016, Prince is dead at 57 years old and only recently on the road doing a well-received solo piano tour. Looking back at nearly four decades of hybridizing rock, funk and dance music, there can be no doubt that the man was a pioneer, sonically, aesthetically and as an artist who stood up and fought back against a music industry that alienated his labour.

FOR THE SAD WAITRESS AT THE DINER IN BARSTOW

Alexis Rhone Fancher San Pedro River Review
With a sharp eye for detail and an unrelenting instinct for trouble, Los Angeles poet Alexis Rhone Fancher presents the sad working woman behind the counter.

Baba Brinkman | "Make It Hot"

A song from the forthcoming album "Rap Guide to Climate Chaos," exploring some of the dynamics that drive global warming and arguing for the urgent need to price carbon emissions.