By Laura E. Gómez How many of the nation’s 62 million Latinos react with an eye-roll every September 15, when Hispanic Heritage Month begins? My own ambivalence stems from multiple sources. For one thing, I hate the word “Hispanic” — a term popularized in the 1970s to refer jointly to…

By Celeste Monforton and Jane M. Von Bergen Celeste Monforton and Jane M. Von Bergen are the authors of On the Job: The Untold Story of Work Centers and the New Fight for Wages, Dignity, and Health, out this May from The New Press All around the country, community-labor organizations…

By Angela Onwuachi-Willig, 2018 The following is an excerpt from Race, Rights, and Redemption: The Derrick Bell Lectures on the Law and Critical Race Theory, edited by Janet Dewart Bell and Vincent M. Southerland, originally published in hardcover as Carving Out a Humanity. This collection gathers some of our country’s brightest progressive legal stars…

Donald Trump’s use of Twitter has been his foremost tool to communicate directly with his base and manipulate public debate, which makes his recent ban from the platform a significant event. …

By Burt Neuborne Democracy died in Weimar Germany on February 27, 1933, when Adolf Hitler, insisted, without persuasive evidence, that communists had burned down the German parliament building as part of a conspiracy to subvert democracy. Hitler, claiming to be defending democracy, arrested the communist members of the Reichstag, and…

When it comes to the safety of journalists, Mexico hasn’t changed By Témoris Grecko Témoris Grecko is a Mexican journalist and political analyst, author of “Killing the Story” and documentary “The Truth Shall Not Be Killed”. On October 29, two gang members shot local TV anchor Arturo Alba Medina…