Andreas Loretan

Hollywood has a problem with portraying history on film. What we know to be real struggles involving real people, typically get washed down to trite melodrama and diluted politics. Shaka King completely subverts that expectation with his explosive new movie, “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Uncompromising in its message and majestic in its form, Judas recounts the true events leading up to the assassination of the young Black Panther chairman Fred Hampton, played by Daniel Kaluuya, and the psycho

The effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom is a partisan GOP con job that exploits legitimate concerns about the state’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a waste of time and resources, and even worse, a wolf in sheep’s clothing that packages an explicitly right-wing agenda with faux-concern for the working class. Efforts to recall Gov. Newsom actually began back in 2019, when the idea of a now year-long pandemic that has claimed 500,000 American lives was just a gleam in the eye

Watching NBC’s coverage on the night of the election, I could not help but think about how disconnected these anchors were from the attitudes of the Latino voting block of the United States. Mouth agape and vocally surprised, Chuck Todd and company hemmed and hawed about the results coming in from Miami-Dade County, Florida. The demographic that the media was so sure to come out in numbers against Trump, had actually voted in favor of the incumbent in a hefty turnout. Now, since this was the ni

If you’re familiar with the social media landscape of 2020 at all, you are surely aware that Twitter is a giant pool of dread, with an algorithm designed to either disillusion you into a cynical pit of confusion, or radicalize you into a survivalist conspiracy theorist. It depends on who you follow really. For every golden nugget of positivity, the world finds a way to spit some of the worst, and occasionally weirdest, news straight from your phone screen into your face. Luckily, there are nearl

California’s Proposition 22 is a movement of power directly from the hands of working people and into the offices of tech company giants. The initiative, with funding that has reached over $180 million by DoorDash, Instacart, Uber, and Lyft, seeks to reverse California’s move to classify these gig-workers as employees and have them remain independent contractors. This would result in a major cutback of potential benefits, workers’ right to unionizing, and concession of sovereignty over to Silico

Multiple women have now stepped forward to claim that ICE medical officials at Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia have operated on their reproductive systems without their consent. As of yet, the Office of the Inspector General has not concluded its investigation into the alleged forced hysterectomies executed. Spokespeople at the Georgia prison in question, along with ICE’s top brass, have feigned concern at the revelation, but quickly encouraged the public to remain “skeptical” about ano