Politics

Jesse Jackson, who died Feb. 17 at the age of 84, carried the moral authority of the Civil Rights Movement into a rapidly changing political and cultural era.

Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights leader who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. and later mounted two historic presidential campaigns, died Tuesday at 84.

America no longer wakes up to news. It wakes up to damage reports, and the reports keep piling up faster than the country can absorb them. In south Minneapolis, a woman died after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired three shots into her vehicle during a street confrontation that played out in full view of cameras and bystanders.

In an unprecedented escalation of U.S. foreign policy over the weekend, President Donald Trump announced that the United States military captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and transported him to New York to face federal drug and narco-terrorism charges. While the debate over U.S. intervention abroad rages, many Americans are asking a different question: Are we spreading ourselves too thin?

On Christmas Day, American missiles struck northern Nigeria. The administration said the targets were terrorists killing Christians. But the same administration had already stripped away humanitarian aid, dismantled U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) programs, shut asylum doors, and blocked visas for Nigerians fleeing violence. The hand that claimed salvation had already withdrawn food, medicine, and refuge.

In announcing his candidacy, Turnage said the district was the poorest in the poorest state when he was born and remains so more than three decades later, arguing that generational economic stagnation has forced families to watch loved ones leave the state in search of opportunity.

The Supreme Court’s recent decision allowing Texas to use a racially discriminatory congressional map threatens that precious right once again—and with it, the foundation of worker power itself.