The "skills gap" myth: What's really driving down wages?
There is an illusion that American workers' economic woes are attributable to their own lack of appropriate skills rather than to concerted efforts on the part of capital to disempower workers.
Revisiting Baltimore and changing the "racial conversation"
Does "Black lives matter" ask for something from the dominant culture that would require economic loss or will it mean gains and not losses, morally and economically, for most Americans?
Straight outta everywhere: Learning to listen in the "racial conversation"
The white dominant culture is more interested in critiquing the rap music rather than critiquing the conditions to which the music bears witness.
Venezuelan official explains left wing losses to U.S. audience
The best way forward is to "deepen" the revolution by expanding the role of the Communal Councils and pushing for even more grassroots democracy.
Ted Cruz is Trump on steroids
Cruz's tax proposal would hit working families, retired persons on fixed incomes and the poor very hard.
In Trump, the right wing has created a Frankenstein monster
Trump's fantasy plan is not only counter to everything America stands for, it would be impossible to carry out and does not address the circumstances that lead to tragedy.
Obama addresses terrorism, others must too
In the best moment of the speech, he responded forcefully to his Republican adversaries who are poisoning the atmosphere with anti-Islam and anti-immigrant vitriol and hatred.
What is Hanukkah really all about?
There's no mystery in understanding why Jews, and perhaps most peoples, celebrate a holiday of light at the time of the winter solstice.
The legacy of Spain and the Lincoln Brigade
When I think about Spain, I think about the people who taught me to fight for a different world, for a vision of a just society, a socialist society.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel must be impeached
Rahm Emanuel has proven himself the most roughly drawn, one-dimensional of comic book villains, an insult to the city's intelligence and sustainability.
