By Leni Reeves The Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba means solidarity with Cuba and working for change in the United States. It is civil disobedience, which means breaking a law to point out how [...] Continue Reading
National & International
America’s Own Death Camps
By Robert Navarro On social media and elsewhere, there is much resort to memes and breathless discussion that compares the complex of camps along the U.S. southern border and prior “camps” as in [...] Continue Reading
Cuban Constitution and Egalitarian Marriage
By Leni Villagomez Reeves The process of creating a new constitution was completed with the approval of the Cuban people in a referendum process that took place on Feb. 24, 2019. It was a [...] Continue Reading
Cuban Constitution and Egalitarian Marriage
By Leni Villagomez Reeves The process of creating a new constitution was completed with the approval of the Cuban people in a referendum process that took place on Feb. 24, 2019. It was a [...] Continue Reading
Newspapers Shrink as Online Journalism Struggles to Fill the Gap
By Vic Bedoian A voluntary buyout offer to 450 employees of the McClatchy newspaper chain was announced recently. Almost half of them took that offer. Not all were journalists or editors, but many [...] Continue Reading
Newspapers Shrink as Online Journalism Struggles to Fill the Gap
By Vic Bedoian A voluntary buyout offer to 450 employees of the McClatchy newspaper chain was announced recently. Almost half of them took that offer. Not all were journalists or editors, but many [...] Continue Reading
Cuban Constitution Project and Gay Marriage
By Leni Villagomez Reeves More than 40 years after the most recent version of the Cuban constitution was written and almost unanimously approved by referendum, Cubans are presently working on a [...] Continue Reading
The Gang That Cannot Shoot Straight Strikes (Out) Again on International Trade
By Daniel Garst “It doesn’t seem like anything was actually agreed to at the dinner and White House officials are twisting themselves into pretzels to reconcile Trump’s tweets (which seem, if not [...] Continue Reading
The Gang That Cannot Shoot Straight Strikes (Out) Again on International Trade
By Daniel Garst “It doesn’t seem like anything was actually agreed to at the dinner and White House officials are twisting themselves into pretzels to reconcile Trump’s tweets (which seem, if not [...] Continue Reading
America’s Climate Solution
By Andrea Farber De Zubiria Monster storms and raging wildfires, toxic air, rising seas and melting permafrost. All over the world, climate change is causing scary stuff. In the Central Valley, the [...] Continue Reading
America’s Climate Solution
By Andrea Farber De Zubiria Monster storms and raging wildfires, toxic air, rising seas and melting permafrost. All over the world, climate change is causing scary stuff. In the Central Valley, the [...] Continue Reading
Say Her Name: Jakelin Caal Maquin
By Stan Santos For a few days in December 2018, the newsgroups announced again and again variations of the lead “Migrant child dies in custody,” “7-year-old migrant girl” or, simply, “Guatemalan [...] Continue Reading