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Book cover of "Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers" by Caroline Fraser. The design features a monochrome photo of a man's face—partially obscured—with a superimposed industrial landscape and plume of smoke, blending the imagery of a serial killer with a polluted, foreboding environment. The title is in bold yellow text at the top, and the author's name appears at the bottom in yellow, noting her as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Prairie Fires".

The Crazy Wall

Caroline Fraser’s Murderland dismantles the voyeurism of true crime by tracing serial murder not to aberrant monsters but to the poisoned infrastructures, institutional apathy, and cultural amnesia that made their violence possible.

The End of Equal Protection

Trump’s April 23rd Executive Order abolishes disparate-impact liability under the guise of restoring “meritocracy,” turning civil rights law into a tool for erasing systemic discrimination rather than remedying it. It is a cornerstone of Project 2025’s authoritarian blueprint: neutral on its face, revanchist in effect.

Screenshot of the Forbes website - article listing 2023 billionaires

The Obscene Wealth of Billionaires Highlights the Need for Systemic Change

The recently published Oxfam report revealing that the world’s five richest men doubled their wealth during the pandemic while billions were made poorer spotlights the obscene inequality generated by global capitalism and highlights the urgent need for systemic change centered on collective ownership and democratic control of workplaces and resources by the working class.