Mainstream outlets can’t stop writing about how the DSA’s endorsement of Cynthia Nixon was a model of democracy in action, unlike the Democratic Party.
July 1 was not the ultimate victory, only the animating first step. Now president-elect 13 years later, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is touring the country, listening. In the tension between celebration and wariness, hope is an active verb.
There are a range of developments happening simultaneously now that throw a disquieting light on any democratic and potentially broader emancipatory project in South Africa. These do not receive much attention in media coverage or political discourse
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Hosting last week’s Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, a worldwide summit of enemies of abortion and same-sex marriage, Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said spreading this brand of religious freedom would be a new State Department “mission.”
On July 30th, Attorney General Jeff Sessions hosted the Religious Liberty Summit. It was clearly designed to advance the Trump Administration’s “twisted and dangerous view of religious freedom, one that uses religion to discriminate and harm others.”
The director’s award-winning new film is the story of a black detective who went undercover with the KKK. He talks ‘wokeness’, vindication and Trump’s America
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