Until 1965, Black people couldn’t vote in most of the South. On Sunday, March 7,, 1965, police in Selma, Alabama and state troopers mounted on horseback clubbed hundreds of Black people who attempted to march across the Edmund Pettus bridge to demand the right...
In recent weeks two states, Colorado and Maine, have ruled that former President Donald Trump is ineligible to be on their presidential primary election ballots. Needless to say, some Democrats and progressives rejoiced, believing that something has saved them from...
It has recently made the news that AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has put a political hit out on a few members of Congress who have been outspoken critics of the state of Israel and of U.S. government support for Israel’s decades-long occupation...
This past November 29, the war criminal Henry Kissinger died at age 100. Former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under Richard Nixon, and for more than 40 years head of Kissinger Associates consulting, he left behind a foreign policy legacy full...
Long before the ugly October 7 attack on Israel and the Israeli-generated carnage that has followed, many who usually vote Democrat, and specifically many younger voters, were moving away from the Democratic Party’s wholehearted support for Israel. But the past two...
