Will Trump start a new Korean War?

The billionaire reality TV star-turned-president seems to be enjoying his new role as a saber-rattling Commander-in-Chief, and North Korea could Continue reading →

Slave revolts from Stono to Nat Turner

From their earliest years of bondage in North America, Africans resisted their captors. Armed rebellion was the most militant option in a Continue reading →

Can the police be reformed?

This article originally appeared in Socialist Worker on June 28, 2016. Scandalous revelations about police violence and corruption have been rocking the Continue reading →

Origins of the police

In England and the United States, the police were invented within the space of just a few decades — roughly Continue reading →

Law and the rise of capitalism

This is a lightly edited set of notes for a talk I gave on June 27 at the Socialism 2014 Continue reading →

The making of Mandela

Nelson Mandela’s life was long and full. His resistance to white supremacy began in the early 1940s — before “apartheid” Continue reading →

What’s behind the bloodshed in Nairobi?

The bloody assault on an upscale mall in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is being portrayed in the media as Continue reading →

Where did Kony come from?

The message of the widely viewed “Kony 2012” video and social media campaign is simple: People should support continued U.S. military Continue reading →