(Pictured above: the parents of Yefri Sorto-Hernandez. You may find the Go Fund Me page raising funds for his bond here.) Over the last six months, I’ve been part of…
ICE has recently kidnapped 5 high school students in North Carolina for deportation, one of them at Riverside High School here in Durham. Please consider calling them in Washington to…
(Like the original Magnum Force, this post is a sequel to the first Dirty Harry.) Of all of Clint Eastwood’s “Sympathy for the Other” movies, Invictus was the most popular in…
This is simply to refer folks to an excellent article about Ferguson by Robin D.G. Kelley I read on the Counterpunch website after it was posted by Imani Perry on Facebook.…
As I keep track of the unfolding struggle over the FCC’s proposed creation of a corporate “fast lane” on the internet that would regulate non-corporate media to second class status…
During the recently concluded qualifying rounds for next summer’s 2014 World Cup, I was reminded of Paraguay’s run at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. So much hope for…
I can think of few more unlikely candidates for creative growth after 40 than Weird Al Yankovic. Back when I was in grade school, he came on the pop culture…
Continuing this series on the publicly funded nature of so called private enterprise in this country…. Sometimes subsidies know how to disguise themselves. Blackwater’s defense contracts bring them direct cash…
The current metaphor of “the fiscal cliff” marks the return of a few common tropes in American politics. First is the latest incarnation of what Naomi Klein has referred to…
