Committee Chair and gatekeeper to a progressive foreign policy: Eliot Engel’s violent incumbency

June 15, 2020 by Stephen Semler in Featured, New Left

Sixteen-time incumbent Eliot Engel supported the racist 1994 crime bill, building more prisons, and gutting public schools. His foreign policy is even worse. As House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Engel stands in the way of a progressive foreign policy.

Capt. Crozier, colonial violence, and COVID-19

April 07, 2020 by Ian Larson in Featured, Empire

Capt. Brett Crozier won instant celebrity for speaking out for his crew. That should be commended. Yet the USS Theodore Roosevelt saga reveals America’s blind spot toward Guam and our colonial present.