Dispatches
Dispatches
News from the front lines of progressive grassroots politics.
The Great and Unmatched Wisdom War
“Never fear, the Commander-in-Phone-Calls will get tough!” Read more
Oct 17, 2019
CNN
A Debate Without a Winner
Voters are still kicking tires and are far from deciding what they want to drive off the lot. Read more
Oct 16, 2019
Giacomo Sini
Photo Essay: Home for the Kurds?
The Kurds living in northern Syria worked together to create an independent region called Rojava, based on workers rights, equality, feminism, and ecology. Read more
Oct 16, 2019
Atomic Tests Channel / Wikimedia Commons
Death, Bloodshed, and Misery in Yemen
“Strike with creativity!” proclaims Raytheon. Read more
Oct 15, 2019
Kids' Work Chicago Daycare
California’s Home Day Care Workers Win the Right to Unionize
The move in other states has resulted in more care workers with licenses, helping ensure more consistent, regulated care for the kids and their families who need it most. Read more
Oct 11, 2019
Daniel Lobo
Resisting Anti-Immigrant Hate in the City of Big Shoulders
A gaggle of far-right MAGA men showed up at a Chicago church to protest its immigrant rights work. Bad decision. Read more
Oct 11, 2019
shutterstock / zimmytws
The Supreme Court Needs to Protect Trans People from Discrimination
“I wasn’t hired because I am trans. And in more than half the country—twenty-nine states, in fact —that’s perfectly legal.” Read more
Oct 10, 2019
Donald Trump Impeaches You!
“It's all there on really old paper and everything!” Read more
Oct 10, 2019
CJ Entertainment
Seoul On Ice: ‘Parasite’
The Cannes hit morphs from a Patricia Highsmith milieu of Mr. Ripley-like talented con artists to a Stephen King house of horrors tale. Read more
Oct 10, 2019
Toxic Remnants of War Project
The Trump Administration Is Moving to Restart Aerial Fumigation in Colombia
The move further endangers the country’s already-fragile peace accord. Read more
Oct 10, 2019
Midwest Dispatch: What Happens When Trump Comes to Town
The President’s upcoming visit to Minneapolis is being framed as something of a grudge match with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. But that’s just one element of the racial dynamics surrounding this tour stop. Read more
Oct 9, 2019
Studio Incendo
Hong Kong Needs to Prepare for a Long Fight. A Very Long One.
One cannot help but wonder: how will all this end? Read more
Oct 8, 2019
UAW International Union / Facebook
The Return of the Strike
The picketing GM workers and impending Chicago Teachers Union action suggest a dramatic revival of striking as a tactic. Read more
Oct 8, 2019
Andrew Nelles / Gage Skidmore
The Politician’s Guide to Surviving a Disability Slur
History shows that when a famous person insults disabled people in this manner, they can easily get off the hook. Read more
Oct 8, 2019
Max Pixel
U.S. Police are Being Trained by Israel—And Communities of Color Are Paying the Price
In recent years, Georgia has experienced troubling trends in fatal police shootings. As this has unfolded, the state continues to pursue a “police exchange” program with the state of Israel. Read more
Oct 7, 2019
LevelFilm
The Necessary Nausea of ‘Ask for Jane’
The combination of physical and emotional violence with the most intimate aspects of women’s bodies, and lives, left me faint. Read more
Oct 4, 2019
YouTube
The Insanity of White Justice and Black Forgiveness
Reducing yet another tragic loss of black life to a Hallmark card is not justice. Read more
Oct 4, 2019
Revolution Messaging
Lessons from Hurricane Harvey, for a Still-Flooded Houston
As Imelda’s floodwaters drain from my hometown, I observe a discourse around Harvey’s two- year anniversary constrained by a presumed opposition between the needs of humanity and the forces of nature—as though the two were in mortal combat. Read more
Oct 4, 2019
USDA
The Cognitive Dissonance of Sonny Perdue
The affable statesman from Georgia joked and charmed his way through a town hall meeting at the World Dairy Expo. The actual substance of his responses was another matter. Read more
Oct 3, 2019
Mahmoud Hassino
Foreign Correspondent: Turkey Plans an Attack on Syrian Kurds
So far, the scheme isn’t working so well. Read more
Oct 3, 2019
