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Hard Crackers Event: Sunday, November 5, 2017, Brooklyn

Hard Crackers Editors

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Hard Crackers is honored to be hosting Marcus Rediker for a reading from his new book, The Fearless Benjamin Lay, and a discussion on Sunday, November 5th at 2 PM in Brooklyn, NY. Join Marcus and ...

Cocaine, Kanye West and Shitty Jobs

Zhandarka Kurti

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by Zhandarka Kurtiย  Around this time last year, I met Mike, a black man in his mid 40s, in the offices of a non-profit organization working with formerly incarcerated people. Its offices are located in a ...

Date Night in Astoria, Queens

Zhandarka Kurti

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I get out of the cab and find myself in front of a large stone building resembling a foreign embassy, not unlike the ones you find in the upper east side of Manhattan. The words โ€œCasa ...

Why He Did It

John Garvey

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by John Garvey The authorities and the media sometimes seem more annoyed and frustrated at Stephen Paddock because they can’t figure out why he did it than they are about him killing 58 people and wounding ...

BOTH KINDS

Kingsley Clarke

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By Kingsley Clarke Adel, Iowa 1986 Frankly, I cannot recall whether or not I have actuallyย had a Bud Light. In 1986 I went back to Adel, Iowa, for my twenty-fifth high school class reunion. Adel was ...

Time for a global anthem

Noel Ignatiev

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by Julia Ward Howe and the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth Regiment (forwarded by Noel Ignatiev) In Counterpunch ofย Oct. 3, Ishmael Reed suggests it is time for a new national anthem, perhaps one written by Stevie Wonder. I am ...