US Politics
2026 Mid-Term Election & Black Political Power
By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad: On Tuesday, Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate in their strongest showing in nearly two decades. A less publicized story is…
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2026 Mid-Terms: Blue Tsunami
By Martin Pengelly & Andrew Perez: Democrats have taken full control of the U.S. Congress in a massive repudiation of Donald Trump’s authoritarian presidency and his gross mishandling…
2026 Mid-Terms: Nixon & El-Sayed
This Tuesday’s election will be, without question, the most consequential of our time, as the lawless administration of Donald Trump is doing its best to end the American…
Book Review: The Day Biafra Died
Reviewer: Asta Tall: A book about how Africa's wars are told... Milton Allimadi's The Day Biafra Died is a history of the Nigeria–Biafra war, but it's also a…
War, International Security & National Security
For millennia, the world’s people have been kidding themselves about national security. Worried about the survival of their nation in a world of self-interested, sometimes aggressive nations, people…
GW Bridge Killing Of Koran Irvine
Tuesday the retired NYPD Detective, who callously took the life of a Black man on the George Washington Bridge, was, once again, charged with murder, for the heinous…
Interview: NYC Racial Equity
By Milton Allimadi and Colin Benjamin: New York City's Commissioner of Equity and Racial Justice, Afua Attah-Mensah, says the administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani is determined to confront…
Mass Shootings & American Gun Violence
Are we angry enough yet? Haven’t our hearts been broken enough times? Are we ready to act now? How many more children do we have to lose? These…
Police Killings & Murders Of Black Americans
So, a Black baby boy is shot dead, inside a car, by a reckless cop, and no one is to be held accountable? And Mississippi’s white attorney general…
Mid-Term Elections 2025 & American Democracy
By Bob Topper: A disturbing essay by conservative Republican Judge Michael J. Luttig, The Final Battle for American Democracy, lays out steps that Trump and his minions will…
