The world’s most ambitious predators -- candidates for US president, like Clinton and Biden -- are also the most likely to condemn young Black men as “predators,” and to wreak mass death, worldwide

Whistleblower Chelsea Manning is jailed for refusing to testify against Julian Assange, whose confinement in Ecuador's London embassy puts the lie to much of the Russiagate fantasy.

This week readers engaged with the question of reparations for slavery and Black America’s stake in environmentalism. Strong responses came for 

Slavery is everywhere banned, but the ethos of the slave trade thrives in the baby-buying business.

The illegal slave trade continued right up to the Civil War, requiring US authorities to “recapture” and then expel the human cargo.