You may have missed it, but recently the secretive consulting firm McKinsey + Co. agreed to pay nearly $600 million in fines to 47 states for its role in helping Purdue Pharma promote opioid addiction. Corporations trying to profit from human suffering is nothing new....
On February 22, hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of Myanmar as workers across the country walked out of their jobs. The people of Myanmar are continuing their struggle against the Myanmar military that has seized power in a coup. Hundreds of people...
On February 26, we celebrate the birthday of Robert F. Williams, a pioneering fighter for Black rights who advocated armed Black self-defense against the racist violence of the Jim Crow south. Rob Williams was born in 1925 in Monroe, North Carolina. Growing up he saw...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, whose poetry defied social barriers and norms, and who saw his poetry as insurgent art, died on February 22. He inspired generations of writers and artists from his City Lights bookstore in San Francisco to make art that challenged the status...
Introduction The storming of the US Capitol last month by crowds of protesters was a stunning display of defiance and anger. Fueled by a false belief that the presidential election was being stolen from them, and exhorted by Trump’s call to march to the Capitol, they...
