This week the reader discussion was on the limits of electoral democracy in the United States and the accommodation of diversity in American imperialism.

The author employs Frantz Fanon’s discussion of protest culture as a lens of analysis of hip-hop in Africa.

The Catholic Church was deeply involved in legitimizing and regulating slavery – a very unsaintly legacy.

Venezuela’s US-appointed coup leader Juan Guaidó plans to privatize state assets and give foreign corporations access to oil, the Wall Street Journal admitted.

There have been a total of at least 1,081 deaths after the use of Tasers since the weapon began coming into widespread use in the early 2000s.