Lizet Ocampo   Among the many lessons learned in this year’s election, one standout is that Latino voter turnout showed the power of extensive, culturally competent voter education and... Read more

  Maritza Pérez   We are at a moment in time when public perception towards drugs and the people who are involved with them is rightfully changing. There may have been no clearer e... Read more

  Maribel Hastings     Now, at the end of one of the most difficult years we have experienced at a collective and personal level, I ask myself how will we, as a society, overc... Read more

Senator Bernie Sanders   Editor’s Note: Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) delivered a speech on Dec. 10 on the Senate floor stating the Senate must pass a $1,200 direct payment for working... Read more

Jaiden Blancaflor and Reggie Eaton   Throughout this period of political chaos and a global pandemic, students have continuously been asked to adapt to the “new normal.” Though this pre... Read more

Robert P. Álvarez   Election after election, voters are turning against mass incarceration and the war on drugs that sustains it. In 2020, the people of Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, an... Read more

Eve Garrow   “A counselor on a domestic violence hotline told me my life was more important than things and that I should get away quickly,” Deborah Kraft recalled. Leaving everything behind... Read more

Janie Grice   During the pandemic, essential workers have become public heroes. These frontline workers include tens of millions of retail employees, from those who stock our grocery sh... Read more

Richard Eskow   We have reached a deadly milestone: 300,000 COVID-19 deaths in the United States. That’s one hundred times as many people as died on 9/11. More people died from Co... Read more

Maribel Hastings and David Torres   With the debacle of the pandemic, the economic crisis, and the drama of the electoral defeat that Donald Trump calls “stolen”—and shamefully continue... Read more