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The Chicago City Council postponed a planned vote on building a new $95 million police academy on the City’s West Side on Tuesday amid a contentious City Council meeting that saw hundreds of protesters in and outside the building. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel presides over a City Council meeting
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Russ and Zach give a non-spoiler reaction to Deadpool 2. And guess what? We'll be talking more about this movie soon...!
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Subscribe on iTunes here. This week on the Visu.News podcast Aaron Cynic and I chat with Danielle Corcione, a regular contributor to Teen Vogue who has written a great intro to Karl Marx for the magazine, titled "Who Is Karl Marx: Meet the Anti-Capitalist Scholar." It&
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[This post was originally published at NationofChange.org] It's another year, and another National Rifle Association Annual Meeting (NRAAM). I've been going to the NRA meetings for four years now. I started going out of curiosity, the way most of my work in journalism begins. It
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"My favorite movie since BLACK PANTHER." - Russ Burlingame
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Hundreds rallied and marched in Chicago Tuesday to commemorate May Day, also known as International Workers' Day. May Day, which sees millions of workers and others march across the globe, has deep roots in Chicago. Workers in the late 19th century—many of them immigrants—built a movement demanding
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SPOILERS ON for the second half of Russ and Zach's look at Avengers: Infinity War. Here's where things get a bit more critical, because however great the movie was, the ending left Russ really cold.
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This week on the Visu.News podcast I chat with long time friend and colleague Jeanne Devon. She's the editor and founder of TheMudflats.net - if you read anything about Sarah Palin back in 2008, it's likely a story that she wrote and then was picked
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Co-Founder Aaron Cynic was in Burns, Tennessee this weekend to cover protests of AmRen, an annual gathering of white supremacists in a local state park. While there he caught up with artist, activist, and presidential candidate Vermin Supreme, who talked about why he traveled to stand with anti-racists
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After ten years, it all comes to this: Avengers: Infinity War pits the various heroes of Marvel's shared cinematic universe against Thanos, the greatest threat they have ever faced, as he endeavors to bring "balance" to the universe by slaughtering half of everybody. This is our
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Editors note - this is a straight up press release. We pretty much never publish these, but this is a book that I'm featured in, along with Greg Palast and many other lefty journalists and activists. I highly recommend checking it out. Get the book here. On April 15,
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In the latest installment of our New Release Wall, Zach and Russ take a look at the strange and wonderful Cartel 2045.