2017

Why Berkeley’s Battle Against White Supremacy is
Not About Free Speech

The Nation, September 8, 2017

(Co-Authored with David Palumbo-Liu)
The sequence of events from Berkeley to Charlottesville dramatically illustrates why this battle is emphatically not about free speech. This is about the ability to shape consensus in a time of rising mass anxiety and political extremism.

2016

Mainstream Polls Fuel Illusion that Voters Only have Two Choices

Truthdig, November 6, 2016

Everywhere we go in this campaign, we find an ever-growing base of support—not just among former Sanders supporters, but also among those “unlikely” voters who are underrepresented in polls: young people, Independents and people of color. These voters compose a potentially game-changing, awakening “sleeping giant” that has the establishment working overtime to impose a media blackout on a third-party alternative.

Hillary Clinton Cries Crocodile Tears for Latin American Immigrants

Truthdig, February 20, 2016

Clinton’s newfound role as “worrier-in-chief” for immigrants in the U.S. cannot be reconciled with the policies she has supported for that vast region south of our border where many immigrants to the United States (especially those lacking legal permission) come from.

2015

Where Black Lives Don’t Matter: Murder and Silence in South Los Angeles

Truthdig, April 27, 2015

(co-authored with Alan Minsky)
Nick Broomfield’s new documentary “Tales of the Grim Sleeper, which chronicles the long and tragic saga of the Grim Sleeper serial killer’s 25-year reign of terror in a South Los Angeles neighborhood, is a damning testament to the widespread, almost casual eradication of black lives by law enforcement — in its word and deeds.

2014

The People’s Game
3-part series for Truthdig, Summer 2014

• Part One: When Soccer Conquered the World
• Part Two: Brazil Rejects Neoliberal Soccer
• Part Three: The 2014 Copa do Mundo as a Window on the World

(Co-Authored with Alan Minsky)
Every 4 years, geopolitics takes the stage on a soccer field. This series explores the meanings behind the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.

2013

A ‘Calm Reflection’ on Trayvon Martin, Oscar Grant, and Too Many Others

Truthdig, July 21, 2013

The protests, the blockades and the continuing outrage on the streets are about a verdict, an epidemic of state-sanctioned slayings of young black men. And they are about race and everyday forms of dehumanization; that people are criminalized all day, every day for the color of their skin, and because of this, their lives are deemed to have no value. It is systemic, and it is deeply personal.