Although President Donald Trump has claimed that “every policy” of his administration was “designed to lift up the American worker,” he has acted consistently, since returning to office in January 2025, to undermine workers’ chosen representatives, America’s labor unions.
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Harry Truman, Hiroshima and the Necessity Defense
The official US line on how the peace plan to end the Ukraine war emerged has Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner developing it, Marco Rubio endorsing it, and then Russia assenting to it. But that story does not hold up.
Our global security system, based in who has the most and the most modern weapons to enforce deterrence, is gradually becoming irrelevant, undermined by the ever-intensifying climate emergency. If any given nation is experiencing droughts, floods, and unbearable, even life-threatening heat, what difference does it make if its government possesses more nuclear weapons than its adversaries?
Racism is not merely prejudice or bias; it is a systemic serial killer that stalks Black lives across generations. It weaponizes institutions, social policies, and cultural norms to inflict harm, shorten lifespans, and deny dignity. Unlike a lone assailant acting in the shadows, racism is a coordinated structure—visible, persistent, and lethal.
The last time my beloved alma mater, Johnson C. Smith University won a CIAA Football Championship was 1969. That’s a long time ago by any barometer that you use. I live in another time zone, yet my clock is always on JCSU time.
The awkward canonization of Dick Cheney
The world of our screens has many of us dreading Thanksgiving. The things old friends and family members post on social media convince us in an instant that they’ve lost any semblance of sanity. But time in person quickly reminds us that we actually love them and still have far more in common than we don’t.
Democrats lost two presidential elections to a charlatan and the party’s approval rating is abysmal. A Wall Street Journal poll conducted in July showed their favorability at only 33%. They should understand why they lost voter confidence and recognize how it happened.
The US has forged a peace proposal with Russia that, as the French are putting it, amounts to Ukraine’s capitulation. For President Volodymyr Zelensky, the worst possible world stares him in the face—a world in which Ukraine must sacrifice territory and self-defense to gain something resembling peace, and Russia must sacrifice nothing yet gain everything it has asked for and more. It is a dangerous moment for Ukraine in more ways than one. An investigation into corruption in Ukraine has found that allies of the president have enriched themselves during the war.