Eds.
What is the point of Star Trek? Is it conceivable that all these treks among the stars are in fact subtle ways to spread and justify U.S. policies, ideology, militarism, and interventionism?
May 8, 2021 | Newswire

Anthony Galluzzo
Myth, an early and enduring human technology, will always be with us, in both unconscious and conscious forms. As we now face the slow-motion collapse of the biosphere, the call for new myths is not so much an escapist alternative to concrete analysis and action as a starting point.
May 7, 2021 | Monthly Review Essays

Vijay Prashad
Kerala, a state in the Indian union with a population of 35 million, has re-elected the Left Democratic Front (LDF) to lead the government for another five years. Since 1980, the people of Kerala have voted out the incumbent, seeking to alternate between the Left and the Right.
May 7, 2021 | Newswire

Margaret Kimberley
There can be no more excuses made for Democratic “progressives,” who steadfastly refuse to fight for what they know to be right.
May 7, 2021 | Newswire

Andy Merrifield
The longest chapter in Capital is the fifteenth, on “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry.”
May 7, 2021 | Newswire

Eds.
For decades, kids who didn’t conform to the gender expected of them were forced to endure treatments designed to “cure” their gender nonconformity. This form of therapy, called “reparative” or “corrective,” typically involved instructing parents–and sometimes teachers–to subject children to constant surveillance and correction.
May 7, 2021 | Newswire

Eds.
In 1898, upwardly mobile Blacks in Wilmington, NC were terrorized and slaughtered in a violent insurrection that set the stage for Jim Crow–and the next 123 years. Hardly anyone really knows about it.
May 7, 2021 | Newswire

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