After another colossally disappointing week of news about the country, the future, etcetera, I’m racking my brains one night for a shot of hope in the arm. Eventually, I settle on google […]
15 Elementary Questions for Jimmy Dore
1) For the left, the anti-war movement, what are called “progressives,” or anyone with whom you share any political values whatsoever, what is the political purpose of downplaying Cenk Uygar’s anti-war positions […]
Occupy Wall Street … Again? Introductory Reflections on the 10th Anniversary
I am writing on July 4, 2021. History rages along toward the 10th Anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street Movement, which culminated on September 17, 2011, in Zuccotti Park in Manhattan, in […]
“A Turning Point”: Mayor Narkewicz says “only direction” is defunding City’s Police, proposes level funding for Police
By T. Wilmot and Matthew Vernon Whalan I am a Northampton resident who finds the violence by armed law enforcement, which I’ve witnessed firsthand in Northampton and has been unfolding nationally, appalling. […]
Tear Gas: A Book Review
A version of this article appeared in The New York Journal of Books in 2017. Anna Feigenbaum’s Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today is a poignant inquiry into the […]
What is a Terrorist?: Criminalizing Dissent in the 21st Century
A version of this article was first published in CounterPunch in 2017. Anna Feigenbaum’s Tear Gas: From the Battlefields of WWI to the Streets of Today is a poignant inquiry into the relationship between a […]