March 8, 2016 By Neil Cosgrove Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash: The 400-Year History of Class in America teaches us that the pundits, political operatives and academics should have been paying attention to […]
Today’s America: Afflicted by Class
One Thousand Forty Days and Counting
March 8, 2017 By Jacqueline Souza That’s how many days have passed since the citizens of Flint, Michigan have had clean drinking water. (Published in print on March 1, 2017) In April […]
Resisting the ‘Deadly Triplets’ of Racism, Militarism, and Materialism
March 6, 2017 By Ellen Wilson “The burning of fossil fuels,” says Wanda Guthrie, “has led to the emergence of corporations that have become so wealthy and powerful that the control, extraction, […]
The Socialism of the Black Panther Party
March 6, 2017 By Mollie March-Steinman cw/tw: violence against Black people, racism Most public schools in America fail to mention the Black Panther Party (BPP) in history classes. If they do, […]
White Vegans: We Have A Race Problem
February 16, 2017 By Jacqueline Souza People often go vegan so that they can fight for a cause: more often than not, the main objectives are to eliminate animal cruelty from our […]
Forced Migration in Pittsburgh: How Do We Fight Back?
February 6, 2017 By Jacqueline Souza On January 10, 2017, members of the Pittsburgh Planning Commission met with architects and attorneys of LG Realty to discuss the construction of new complexes in […]
Persecution by the Turkish Government
February 1, 2017 By Sebnem Unlu The Hizmet (the Turkish word for service) movement was inspired by the Turkish Muslim scholar M. F. Gulen about 40 years ago in Turkey. For decades, […]
Military Budget: Trillions Unaccounted For
February 1, 2017 By Molly Rush “The Pentagon buried an internal study that exposed $125 billion in military waste in its business operations amid fears Congress would use the funding as an […]
How Pittsburgh Banks Fund the War
February 1, 2017 By Ron Read Pittsburgh’s downtown business district holds offices for several major banking institutions that have been in existence for over a hundred years. Three institutions worth noting are […]
Hope and Democracy Are Alive
January 31, 2017 By Bette McDevitt Rosemary Trump was in the capital both on the day of the Inauguration and on the day of the Women’s March, and she can tell us […]
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