For months, worried parents in Flint, Mich., arrived at their pediatricians’ offices in droves. Holding a toddler by the hand or an infant in their arms, they all have the…
On August 9th, Yasmin Yonis, a Somali-American writer, caused a Twitter storm when she started a conversation about accusations of cultural appropriation made by South Asian Twitter against Black Twitter.…
In the entrance hall of a run-down block of flats, a group of teenagers stood hanging out, smoking, track-suit hoods up, shoulders hunched, seemingly nonplussed that they were getting drenched.…
Inedible food, no time in the outside yard, overcrowded cells and no access to religious or self-help programs. Muhamad Alhasi told the Sun on Wednesday that he and other inmates…
According to the dominant narrative, the origin of capitalism was a European process at its core: this was a system born in the mills and factories of England, or under…
One in five inmates at Canada’s second-largest jail are refusing meals to protest a spate of problems with the new facility ranging from mouldy showers to relentless lockdowns. Read the…
There may be problems with some people who identify with anarchosyndicalism, but it is not because there is any inherent correlation between it and fascism. Read the rest of this…
People living in remote First Nations north of Sioux Lookout, Ont., are experiencing acute rheumatic fever at a rate that is among the highest in the world, according to new…
When it comes to automotive technology, self-driving cars are all the rage. Read the rest of this post on the original site at Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to…
The mother of a black Baltimore man whose death in police custody prompted charges against police officers has attempted suicide, WJZ television is reporting. Read the rest of this post…
In the past several years, settler colonial theory has taken over my field, Native American studies. Comparative indigenous histories focused especially on British-descended “settler colonies”—Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the…
Thomas More’s Utopia, a book that will be 500 years old next year, is astonishingly radical stuff. Not many lord chancellors of England have denounced private property, advocated a form…
A small note – not the stuff of headlines, obviously – appeared in the newspapers on 3 February. Read the rest of this post on the original site at The…
“Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini It is generally attrributed to an article written by Mussolini…
The Ferguson uprising started the development of a revolution here in the United States. There is no question that Ferguson was much different and more radical than anything we’ve seen…
#Palestine #Unity / #DisunityAsRadical: ‘Eurocentric / colonial identity politics’ (*my definition below) is tearing apart and dividing ally from ally, sister/brother from brother/sister. Read the rest of this post on…
Their deaths go unnoticed. They do not make headlines. But a disproportionate 259 aboriginal children and youth have died violently or in unusual circumstances since 2000. It is a tragedy…
The vast majority of women surveyed who wear the niqab in Canada are not only willing to remove their veils to be identified, but feel it is part of their…
‘When we talk about the country we want, we must talk about values that respect, protect and guarantee women’s rights,’ write two dozen leading feminists. The election rhetoric based on…
A new movement born of an Instagram account has one central complaint: Pierre-Auguste Renoir – the French impressionist – was a terrible artist, and his paintings should be removed from…
