While activists support calls for gun reform, some are hoping the momentum can also highlight violence in minority neighborhoods By Adam...

Ram Trucks distorted a Martin Luther King sermon to sell its cars. This is how the establishment whitewashes history BY Gary Younge | The...

One year in, we still haven’t learned how to escape the Trump news cycle By Matt Taibbi | Rolling Stone Magazine | January 23, 2018...

“For thousands of years, the human experience was full of misery, death, disease, abject poverty,” Charles Koch told allies at his annual...

Electoral successes in Europe and the US are the result of a process whereby bigotry is made palatable By Gary Younge | The Guardian |...

The South African trumpeter, who has died aged 78, spanned a huge variety of styles – from disco-pop to fiercely political jazz By Robin...

One year into Trump’s presidency, one political party has been transformed. It’s not the GOP. By MATT GROSSMANN | Politico | January 21,...

Modern day Republicans and Democrats often speak as if they love King, even as they excoriate the real heirs to his legacy By Steve W...

The ex-White House strategist who turned his fire and fury on the president is now out at Breitbart too. Those in the know, though, say...

The 70s genre is set to dominate big screens again with a slew of remakes and reboots. But where will these films fit in contemporary...

Donald Trump’s utter unfitness for the presidency has been laid bare in Michael Wolff’s new book. What will it take for his party to...

Donald Trump’s presidency has been dominated by a huge effort to protect the narrow interests of one particular demographic group:...

Author of Fire and Fury says he stands by ‘absolutely everything in the book’ By David Smith | In Washington for The Guardian | January 5...

Worst thing Steve Bannon said about Trump? “Money laundering” By Heather Digby Parton | Salon | January 4, 2018 Was Trump enraged because...

Prison firms that restructured as real estate investment trusts see substantial tax cut – more good news for those who benefit from...

In the era of digital politics, an odd alliance has sprung up: anti-state campaigners and Moscow-backed nationalists are combining to...

From the forgotten poor to desperate addicts, their whiteness is all some of them have left – and that makes fertile ground for the far...

“Black-on-black crime” is an invention that was decades in the making EBONY SLAUGHTER-JOHNSON | ALTERNET | October 31, 2017 Days after...

I think we do need truth and reconciliation in America.  But truth and reconciliation are sequential. You can’t get to reconciliation...

The pressures of the presidency have pushed Trump to the edge, but is he crazy enough to be removed from office? By Matt Taibbi | Rolling...