This month in Virginia, Shenandoah County’s school board began to roll back the symbolic gains of the 2020 George Floyd protests. The conservative board ruled 5-1 to rename two schools back to the names of Confederate military leaders: Mountain View High School as...
May 13, 2024 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA) in France, translated from French After destroying northern Gaza, the Israeli army is preparing to launch an offensive in the south, at Rafah, where Palestinians have taken refuge. At least 35,000 have died....
New levels of extreme weather are wreaking havoc on millions. In the U.S., heavy rain in Texas damaged hundreds of buildings and required over 600 rescues. Severe storms in the central U.S. resulted in widespread destruction, power outages, and dozens injured....
In the first week of May, Russia’s Defense Ministry announced that Russia would hold military exercises near the Russia-Ukraine border to practice for use of tactical nuclear weapons. The announcement came in response to two statements, one by French President Macron...
For those of in the United States, we are told from a very young age that we live in a democracy. We are told that we live in a society where the “majority rules.” We likely were told this idea when we were in school and we are often reminded of this idea in movies,...
