Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

‘Unconscionable’: Thousands of workers at Salesforce, San Francisco’s biggest employer, demand company stop working with NRA

By Joshua Bote, San Francisco Gate Employees at Salesforce, San Francisco’s largest private employer, are urging executives to cease their working relationship with the National Rifle Association after the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting that left 19 children and two adults dead. An open letter titled, “Ending our […]

A New Transgender Feminism

New York Review of Books On Friday, we published an essay by Paisley Currah on sex classification and the hurdles to changing one’s legal sex. “For transgender people in the United States,” he writes, “the sheer number of state institutions with discrete authority to define sex ensnares us […]

Kayfabe Populism

By Caitlin Johnstone It’s so important that the public have no real say in US politics that the empire not only set up two oligarchic puppet parties which pretend to oppose each other, but also set up fake populist movements within each of those factions which pretend to […]

Can Diverse and Divided Democracies Survive?

Today, Marshall speaks with Yascha Mounk, author of THe Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, joins The Realignment to discuss the unprecedented challenges facing diverse and democratic societies such as the United States and Europe. 0:00 – Introduction 2:00 – Yascha’s view […]