Opinion
Dance of Death: Congressional Inaction After El Paso and Dayton
“As usual, people have been asking whether this will be the shooting that finally brings about meaningful action from Congress or the White House. My response: certainly not.”
“An Acute and Worsening Crisis”: Migrants Face Dangerous Conditions at America’s Southwest Border
The prolonged detention of migrants at facilities ill-equipped for long-term needs has produced devastating consequences.
PARK: Presidential Ambitions May Stunt Democrat Senate Prospects
By rejecting a Senate run in their highly contested states, Beto O’Rourke, John Hickenlooper and Steve Bullock may be doing their party a disfavor.
On Toni Morrison
“Toni Morrison, without a doubt, served as the greatest Anglophone writer of the twentieth century…[she] wrote as a Black woman, about Black women, for Black women.”
When Narcissism and Privilege Became the Keys to Number 10
“Johnson’s relationship with the truth is about as secure as his relationship to his ideals, or one of his oft-cheated wives. All these become secondary to his higher task of elevating himself, and continuing the oligarchy that helped him.”
CARACCIO: Operation Ballot Box
Though Spain clutches Catalonia in an ever-tightening chokehold, on October 1, 2017, the indefatigable mobilization of the Catalan people still breathed life into democracy.
SIDDAPUREDDY: On a Woman’s Freedom to Insult
A courageous denunciation of the oppression and erosion of morality under Museveni’s cruel hand landed Nyanzi in jail.
Rocketman to Russia
A Russian film distribution company allegedly cuts several scenes from Sir Elton John’s biopic, in compliance with the state’s strict “gay propaganda” laws passed in 2013— igniting a debate over LGBTQ representation.