Category: Democracy

Cambridge, Vote Evan MacKay. Vote Peace.

August 6, 2026 Jackie Dee King

Vote Evan MacKay for State Rep from Cambridge! Evan is the peace candidate in this race and a leader in the movement to reform an undemocratic State House. Evan MacKay, a Mass. Peace Action Board member, is running for state representative in the 25th Middlesex […]

“Paz for the People” in CD5

July 30, 2026 Jeannie Connerney

On July 23, 2026, I sat down with Jonathan Paz, candidate for US Congress in Massachusetts District 5, to ask him questions about his campaign and his vision for the future. Jonathan Paz (“Paz for the People!”) is challenging the incumbent, Katherine Clark. Jonathan was […]

How (And Why) AI is Eroding Democracy in the US

June 24, 2026 Tom Valovic

In the first few weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump announced a massive AI infrastructure project dubbed Stargate. It was an unexpected and rather odd event for a new administration’s first major initiative. It now seems obvious that the project was a highly coordinated initiative between the federal government […]

Trump’s Ebola Response Demonstrates Hegemony, Not Partnership

June 18, 2026 Finn Smith

U.S. foreign policy has long had the tendency of treating third world countries as something less than sovereign nations and partners. From practicing regime change to flexing its economic dominance, the U.S. has used its powerful global position to enforce its will in sovereign third […]

Promises Without Peace: The Limits of U.S. Diplomacy

June 18, 2026 Gabrielle Griffin-Fetsch

Today, it is nearly impossible to go a day without hearing about U.S. foreign policy. Words of “peace talks” and “negotiations” continue to be thrown around by various news outlets, yet these claims also continue to be countered by other nations and world leaders, who […]

War Crimes in an Age of Impunity

April 29, 2026 Abigail Greenblatt

Last week, on Wednesday, April 22, Amal Khalil, a Lebanese journalist, was targeted and killed by Israeli forces while reporting on an earlier Israeli attack with her colleague Zeinab Faraj. Khalil and Faraj took shelter in a building, where rescue workers tried to reach the […]

A Brief History of May Day

April 22, 2026 Jeanne Trubek

by Jeanne Trubek Why did May 1st become International Workers Day throughout the world? It began with a general strike in the United States. The country was experiencing a long economic depression that started in 1873 and continued for 5½ years. The Great Upheaval – […]