By Michael Drohan The author, Joe Bargeant, was born in Winchester, Virginia, a town of approximately 27,000 people in the Shenandoah Valley of North-Western Virginia. The town, founded in 1752, has a […]
Arms and Capital: A Profane Historical Alliance
By Neil Cosgrove Both the mythology surrounding the origins of modern capitalism, and the moral complacency that passes for “sanity” in the complex societies capitalism has wrought, are called into question by […]
Wreck
By Angele Ellis no moon, no stars. the streetlamps as distant as Venus. i boarded the wrong bus— thought i had encompassing right. my membrane of safety slipped like a […]
White Supremacy and the 2nd Amendment
By Michael Drohan Review of book Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, City Lights Books, 2018. This wonderful peoples’ history by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz follows her earlier book […]
Block Decides To Keep Gouging P-G Journalists
BY NEIL COSGROVE Confronted with an unfavorable National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruling that Block Communication, Inc. has violated labor law by refusing to pay a 5% increase in health insurance premiums […]
Fighting For Journalistic Integrity At The Post-Gazette
BY NEIL COSGROVE At this moment, the journalists of the Pittsburgh PostGazette and the Denver Post have a lot in common. Both groups work for the only daily newspapers in their mid-size […]
East End Community Thrift Communal Poem
By Shawna Hammond We left a notebook out to be discovered by shoppers, volunteers or any visitors to the store. On the page, a poem title was suggested with the invitation for […]
Think Like a Commoner: A Review
By Laura Quinn In a New York Times Book Review retrospective on the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, novelist Martin Amis peevishly claims that “the chief demerit of the Marxist program […]
A Hellish Bargain
By Michael Drohan Review of book: Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Storming of the Presidency by Joshua Green, 2017. Green’s book relives the events that catapulted Donald Trump to […]
The Korean War: Convenient Forgetting
By Michael Drohan Review of Book: The Korean War by Bruce Cumings, 2010 The Korean War is often referred to as “the forgotten war,” a name which was first used in an […]
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