Part of the Series The Public Intellectual Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. On June 6, resistance ignited in the streets of Los Angeles to confront the Trump regime’s brutal campaign against immigrants,...
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has ordered the removal of Harvey Milk’s name from a Navy replenishment ship, and the move stirred up the inevitable controversy. It was intended to, just as the original naming of the ship was meant to be a poke in the eye of opponents of DEI. The choice to name...
I dunno. Maybe stop trying to impose radical cultural notions on voters who keep insisting on rejecting them? Maybe start with Latinx and move outward? Just a thought! Anyway, first one has to accept the obvious, and neither Democrats nor the New York Times have gotten to that stage on the Kübler-Ross process. In fact,...