There’s a kind of mental abuse that doesn’t leave bruises. It doesn’t show up on medical charts. It doesn’t always make headlines. But it wears people down slowly, over time, until they begin to [...] Continue Reading
Opinion & Analysis
School-to-Prison Pipeline
The Central Unified School District is at a moment of reckoning. The latest budget choices reveal a painful truth about where the district places its value. It is not with the students, but with [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Courts: A Cesspool of Nepotism
Fresno County is one of the most diverse counties in California. But you wouldn’t know it by looking at our judges. While our neighborhoods are a mix of cultures and backgrounds, with a Latino [...] Continue Reading
Los tribunales de Fresno: un pozo de nepotismo
El Condado de Fresno es uno de los condados más diversos de California. Pero nadie lo sabría con solo ver a nuestros jueces. Mientras que nuestros vecindarios son una mezcla de culturas y orígenes, [...] Continue Reading
Central Unified: Blueprint for SEDA
The Central Unified School District is no longer just a district struggling with inequity. It has become a blueprint for it, an example of how poor planning and uneven investment divide students by [...] Continue Reading
Distrito Unificado Central: un modelo para SEDA
El Distrito Escolar Unificado Central ya no es solo un distrito que lucha contra la desigualdad. Se ha convertido en un modelo de cómo reproducirla, un ejemplo de cómo la mala planeación y la [...] Continue Reading
What’s Wrong with Fresno!?
By asking this question some might think this is to be a bash piece against Fresno. In truth, it is quite the opposite. This is not a feel-good piece either. I ask the question because I truly [...] Continue Reading
Resistance Is Not Futile
If it had not dawned upon us before recent events, it should be totally obvious now: Christian theocrats, white nationalists and oligarchs who never have enough money are trying to drag the United [...] Continue Reading
California Values Act and the TRUTH Act
In a Merced Sun-Star interview (Oct. 1, 2025) following his brief presentation (on Sept. 9, 2025) to the Merced County Board of Supervisors, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke dismissed the California [...] Continue Reading
Cambodia-Thailand Conflict
The inaugural Decolonizing Southeast Asia Studies Conference at Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on July 25 concluded with a timely session on the centuries-old border conflict between [...] Continue Reading
America the Great?
Almost from its beginning the United States of America has been considered great, the hope of oppressed people on the rest of the planet with the possible exception of the indigenous people of what we [...] Continue Reading
America the Great?
Almost from its beginning the United States of America has been considered great, the hope of oppressed people on the rest of the planet with the possible exception of the indigenous people of what we [...] Continue Reading