Rob Maurer

2 days ago | laprogressive.com | David Love |Rob Maurer

White Southerners are writing the textbooks, erasing Black people from history, denigrating our name, and keeping the history books as white as their schools. White Southerners are writing the textbooks, erasing Black people from history, denigrating our name, and keeping the history books as white as their schools. As America has a reckoning over its legacy of racism and enslavement and the telling of history, along comes a story that should outrage us all, and open our eyes.

2 days ago | laprogressive.com | Robert Koehler |Rob Maurer

Opposition is also political such as the existence of sanctuary cities whose governments refuse to cooperate with ICE, despite the risks they face for doing so. Opposition is also political such as the existence of sanctuary cities whose governments refuse to cooperate with ICE, despite the risks they face for doing so.

5 days ago | laprogressive.com | Dick Platkin |Rob Maurer

Though accelerating climate change and dangerous topography are certain to produce lethal wildfires, the obvious policy of rezoning burn areas is not at City Hall. Though accelerating climate change and dangerous topography are certain to produce lethal wildfires, the obvious policy of rezoning burn areas is not at City Hall. On one hand, they privately know that the hillside areas destroyed in LA’s recent wildfires will soon burn again.

5 days ago | laprogressive.com | Ramzy Baroud |Rob Maurer

Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world observes with varying degrees of anger, helplessness, or total disregard. The situation in Gaza today starkly highlights Israeli exceptionalism. Israel is employing the starvation of two million Palestinians in the blockaded and devastated Gaza Strip as a tactic to extract political concessions from Palestinian groups operating there.

6 days ago | laprogressive.com | David F. Bacon |Rob Maurer

More B-52s would not have won that war. They will not win any new war against a people willing to do whatever it takes to survive and win. On the plane to Hanoi in December of 2015, I opened my morning copy of the New York Times to find an article by Dave Philipps: “After 60 Years, B-52’s Still Dominate the U.S. Fleet.” The piece stuck with me.