Noam Chomsky

• AOC condemns NYPD test deployment of K-9 robot in Bronx home
  Common Dreams
• MAGA's CPAC crowd rewards Josh Hawley with a standing ovation for voting to overturn election
  Conservatives continue to reward Republicans who fought to overturn the 2020 presidential election.Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) was one of the most prominent proponents of the "Big Lie" that Donald Trump actually won the presidential election. Hawley refused to accept the outcome of the election even after the Electoral College voted to confirm Joe Biden's victory […]
  David Badash
• Donald Trump Jr. bombs at CPAC -- and gets scorched for lying that 'radical' Dems have 'banned the Muppets'
  If Donald Trump, Jr. was hoping to get support for a political run he did not receive it at Friday's Conservative Political Action Conference. The son of the former president was the last speaker of the day, but had to address a room with more empty chairs than he probably expected. There was no attempt […]
  The New Civil Rights Movement
• How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America
  How can maps fight racism and inequality?The work of the Black Panther Party, a 1960s- and 1970s-era Black political group featured in a new movie and a documentary, helps illustrate how cartography – the practice of making and using maps – can illuminate injustice. As these films show, the Black Panthers focused on African American […]
  The Conversation
• How does the Johnson & Johnson vaccine compare to other coronavirus vaccines?
  How does the Johnson & Johnson vaccine compare to other coronavirus vaccines? 4 questions answered The Johnson & Johnson vaccine only requires one dose. Phill Magoke/AFP via Getty ImagesMaureen Ferran, Rochester Institute of TechnologyOn Tuesday, Feb. 24, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration released the results of its trial of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus […]
  The Conversation
• There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people
  The cost of slavery and its legacy of systemic racism to generations of Black Americans has been clear over the past year – seen in both the racial disparities of the pandemic and widespread protests over police brutality.Yet whenever calls for reparations are made – as they are again now – opponents counter that it […]
  The Conversation
• How New York’s 19th-century Jews turned Purim into an American party
  Purim, which falls this year on Feb. 26, ranks among Judaism's most joyous holidays.In synagogues, Jews read the Scroll of Esther, a book in the Hebrew Bible that explains how Purim came to be. Jewish people dress up in costumes and host carnivals. At home, they indulge in festive dinners with ample wine. It's a […]
  The Conversation
• How Black people in the 19th century used photography as a tool for social change
  Frederick Douglass is perhaps best known as an abolitionist and intellectual. But he was also the most photographed American of the 19th century. And he encouraged the use of photography to promote social change for Black equality.In that spirit, this article – using images from the David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography at the […]
  The Conversation
• The murder Chicago didn't want to solve
  ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The man who called me, a long-retired Chicago police officer, was alternately charming and curt. He insisted he had nothing to do with the murder. “All the things you wrote in your […]
  Pro Publica
• The U.S. took down its dangerous white supremacist leader — but that's no substitute for revolutionary change
  There is a scene in the new film "Judas and the Black Messiah," directed by Shaka King and produced by Ryan Coogler, in which Chairman Fred Hampton of the Illinois Black Panther Party explains to a group of Black students that just because their school was allowing them to change its name to "Malcolm X […]
  Sonali Kolhatkar