20 JULY 2025/POLITICS/LEANNE MAXWELL (SFist.com) Hayward and Alameda County leaders have proposed a $900,000 reparations fund for residents whose land was seized during the demolition of Russell City — a historically Black and Latino community — to make way for an industrial park in the 1960s. As Bay Area News… Continue reading
Mamdani struggled against Andrew Cuomo in majority-Black precincts — but his lackluster performance may not tell the whole story.Share Mychal Denzel Smith July 18 2025 (TheIntercept.com) Mychal Denzel Smith is the author of Stakes Is High: Life After the American Dream, winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction. ZOHRAN MAMDANI’S CAMPAIGN struggled… Continue reading
Democracy Now! Jul 10, 2025 Latest Shows Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de… Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa’s latest documentary, Apocalypse in the Tropics_, explores the impact of evangelical Christianity on Brazil’s political landscape. Once a small minority, evangelicals now constitute about 30% of Brazil’s population and played a key role in the… Continue reading
OPINION//OPEN FORUM I didn’t understand the machinery of autocratic power, the mechanisms of control, the unspoken rules of party discipline. Now I do. And I see it developing here Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a state-of-the-nation address to the Duma, Russia’s parliament, in 2012. What’s happening in the U.S. today is eerily similar… Continue reading
Colombian President Gustavo Petro (left) and Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour (right) attend the emergency summit of the Hague Group at the San Carlos Palace in Bogotá on July 16, 2025. (Photo: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images) “These measures show that we will no longer allow international… Continue reading
Alicia Lester, case manager and service coordinator, helps Henry Pedoff fill out a Medicaid and a food assistance application at the LifeNet4Families center on May 14, 2025 in Lauderhill, Florida. (Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images) “If congressional Republicans think these burdens are appropriate for struggling families, then members of Congress should… Continue reading
July 18, 2025 | businessinsider.com with Akin Oyedele Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images Consider this: just 0.7% of the more than 300,000 people who applied for a summer internship at Goldman Sachs this year got accepted. That was a record low, and even tougher than getting into the Ivy League.Clearly, the competition… Continue reading
Stephen Colbert attends SNL50: The Anniversary Special on February 16, 2025 in New York City. (Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images) The network announced the cancellation three days after host Stephen Colbert lambasted its parent company for a $16 million legal settlement with President Donald Trump. JULIA CONLEY Jul 18, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)… Continue reading
