House Republicans single out NPR and PBS in anticommunist witch-hunt
The hearing summoned executives from both NPR and PBS to be subjected to fascist lies and conspiracy theories.
•Nick Barrickman
Nick Barrickman
Soul, rhythm and blues and jazz singer Roberta Flack, 1937-2025
At her peak, the singer’s music was capable of great depth, sincerity and emotional intimacy, which she seemingly conjured from thin air.
•Nick Barrickman
George Mason University president dodges and distorts at student town hall after crackdown on anti-genocide protesters
President Washington addressed his audience with barely disguised contempt throughout the in-person public meeting as he was questioned again and again about his perceived indifference to their well-being and democratic rights.
•Nick Barrickman
No, rapper Kendrick Lamar did not “protest” Trump at the Super Bowl—he wallowed in backwardness
Lamar and much of the hip hop world represent the antithesis of opposition to big business and capitalism. Hip hop is big business.
•Nick Barrickman, David Walsh
Mid-air collision between passenger flight and military helicopter kills 67 in US capital
The crash is the first mass casualty event involving a commercial jet in the United States since 2009.
•Nick Barrickman
Singer-actress Selena Gomez faces far right attacks after video in solidarity with immigrants goes viral
The video has been viewed tens of millions of times on other X-Twitter after she posted it to her nearly 500 million followers on her Instagram account.
•Nick Barrickman
Maryland’s Democratic governor proposes austerity budget for next fiscal year
Wes Moore, the governor of Maryland, recently released his budget plan for the next fiscal year, which includes $2 billion in cuts for climate spending and other vital social programs.
•Saadiq Shah, Nick Barrickman
Trump pardons Washington, D.C. police officers convicted for murder of unarmed motorist
Trump is seeking to roll back any concessions that were made to popular opposition as part of a generalized effort to establish a presidential dictatorship resting on the support of police state agencies and fascist militias.
•Nick Barrickman
Sparse turnout at Democratic Party and pseudo-left-controlled People’s Marches throughout the country
The protests, which were organized by the Women’s March and various appendages of the Democratic Party, paled in size in comparison to the massive rallies held in response to the first Trump administration coming to power in January 2017.
•Nick Barrickman
Heavy snowfall across United States from the Plains to the Mid-Atlantic region leaves 7 dead
The snowfall, which originated in the US Pacific Northwest and pushed southward, covered the Plains region and made its way to the eastern seaboard by Sunday, stopping businesses, extending winter breaks and leading to over a half-dozen fatalities.
•Nick Barrickman
Perryville, Maryland IKEA workers vote to extend strike into the new year
The distribution workers have been on strike since mid-November, citing seniority treatment and pay which is below the cost of living.
•Nick Barrickman
SEIU calls off George Washington University resident doctors strike at the 11th hour
The resident staff was scheduled for a three-day strike this week, seeking relief from poverty wages, burnout and other workplace hazards.
•Nick Barrickman
George Mason University students demand democratic rights for leaders of Students for Justice in Palestine
Students have reacted with outrage at the university and police attempts to silence dissent on the campus.
•Nick Barrickman
William Gropper: Artist of the People, at Washington DC’s Phillips Collection
Gropper at his best mercilessly skewered the charlatanry and fakery of American political life, while capturing the plight of the poor and the destitute.
•Nick Barrickman
Nikole Hannah-Jones and other racialists go on tirade against population for Democrats’ election loss
In the wake of the election, the proponents of identity politics, stung by the blow to their political project, have attacked the population for supposedly being too racist to cast their votes for the Democratic Party.
•Nick Barrickman
Philadelphia transit union leaders defy members’ vote to strike as contract expires
Leaders from the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 234 unilaterally overturned the will of transit workers to strike as their one-year contract expired last week.
•Landon Gourov, Nick Barrickman
Harris holds rally at Muhlenberg College in wake of firing of professor for speaking out against Palestinian genocide
Harris’s campaign stop was not geared toward making any statements in defense of democratic rights but lent her campaign’s stamp of approval to the college’s effort to banish them.
•Nick Barrickman
Protest against removal of pro-Palestinian teacher shuts down Philadelphia school board meeting
Keziah Ridgeway was removed from her post last month following complaints from far right Zionist elements in Philadelphia who objected to her vocal defense of her students’ rights to free speech and opposition to the Gaza genocide.
•Nick Barrickman
Washington, D.C. transit workers forced to vote on “memorandum of understanding” instead of contract
The four year contract emerging from this sordid maneuver will allow WMATA to abuse its workers until 2028, and likely introduce new attacks which haven’t been disclosed to the membership.
•Nick Barrickman
National Education Association union announces deal to end strike by staffers
This bitter factional battle within the NEA and its subordinates within the NEASO has given Biden and the Democratic Party, along with the NEA leadership, a huge black eye among its employees and educators.
•Douglas Lyons, Nick Barrickman