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BY NICKY REID On June 10th, 2023, a madman died alone in his cell at the age of 81 in a federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina. This morbid list of details wouldn’t exactly be considered news if it wasn’t for the fact that this lone madman also happened to be named Theodore Kaczynski. Better known as the Unabomber, Ted was quite possibly the most notorious domestic terrorist in American history, dueling with the FBI in a 17-year game of cat and mouse that would ultimately become the longest and most expensive investigation in that agency’s history by the time of his arrest at his one room shack in rural Montana. However, even with those legendary stats and all the hyped-up true crime mythology that comes with them, at the end of another crowded news day, Ted Kac...

BY SARAH ANDERSON Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders launched a Poor People’s Campaign in 1968 to tackle what he called the “Triplets of Evil” — systemic racism, poverty, and militarism. Fifty years later, activists revived this multi-racial fusion movement to carry on the fight against these injustices, as well as the growing scourge of ecological devastation. In 2018, this modern-day Poor People’s Campaign joined with the Institute for Policy Studies to audit progress in these areas. Our conclusion? By many indicators, from voting rights to mass incarceration to wealth inequality, these systemic problems had deepened since 1968. With these disturbing facts in hand, the campaign has united poor and low-income people across the country t...

BY PAUL STREET Image by Alejandro Cartagena. The fascist monstrosity Donald Trump’s Republikaner minions within and beyond Congress claim to believe that his recent and overdue state and federal indictments reflect the unfairness of a “two-tiered justice system” weighted by the “radical Left” against their orange-tinted Dear Leader. You Can Quit Dreaming About Trump in a Jumpsuit The complaint is dark comedy. Tens of millions of US-Americans, disproportionately nonwhite, are saddled with felony records, prison histories, and jail time for relatively minor and nonviolent offenses like shoplifting, writing bad checks, selling pot, failing to pay child support, and drug possession. Much of the nations’ giant jailed population is behind bars simply because of an inability to p...