Savoring What Remains in an Age of Climate PTSD

Recently, I was in Homer, Alaska, to talk about my book The End of Ice . Seconds after I had thanked those who brought me to the small University...

In Wag the Dog Move, Indicted Israeli PM Netanyahu Moves to Annex 25% of Palestinian West Bank

Interim Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu committed again on Sunday that his government will steal the entire Jordan Valley from the...

Money, Power and Turf: Winning the Middle East Media War at Any Cost

It is hardly surprising to see Middle Eastern countries at the bottom of the World Press Freedom Index, as the worst violators of freedom of the...

Toys R Us Worker: Wall Street Billionaires Should Not Be Making Money By Putting People Out of Work

For many years, Giovanna De La Rosa enjoyed working at Toys ‘R’ Us—especially during the holiday shopping season. “I loved bringing joy to...

The Great American Shakedown

The Democratic Party and its liberal supporters are perplexed. They presented hours of evidence of an impeachable offense, although they studiously...

To Survive Crushing Neoliberalism, the World Needs Intersectional Solidarity

On Friday, December 1, two protest marches met in central London in what felt like a magical moment. A few thousand striking university lecturers...

The NHS Is Opening Up to US Business—the Reassurances Are Demonstrably False

Facing opposition claims that it will ‘sell off the NHS to the Americans’ after Brexit, the Conservatives have been eager to reassure us. Quizzed...

The Missing Stories: Three Big Issues the Media Is Missing

If journalism is the first draft of history, the press is missing three of the biggest stories of our time.  Of course, the Democrats’ inability...

How Media Turn Support for Public Schools Into Opposition to Children of Color

Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren and other Democratic presidential candidates are rejecting the Obama administration’s embrace of charter schools,...

Beating Trump Is Not Enough: The Real Change Democrats Must Pursue

I have always believed “politics is the art of the possible.” This was well summarized in Barack Obama’s 2008 slogan “Change You Can Believe...

The Pitchforks Will Come Out Eventually

We built our current society on a precept that things last forever. That nothing comes to an end, whether it be economic growth or the accumulation...

The Women Who Will Save Us All

At Wednesday’s hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, both committee members and the panel of constitutional scholars repeatedly invoked...

The Centuries-Long History of Extractive Greed

Two years after spilling 407,000 gallons of oil in South Dakota, the Keystone Pipeline erupted again. In November, a North Dakota portion of the...

Big Energy Front Group Launches Push for Troubled Atlantic Coast Pipeline

A lobbying group formed by oil and gas industry insiders to push for increased fossil fuel production has turned its focus from promoting offshore...

Why Not Also Go With “The Kitchen Table” Impeachable Offenses for Removal?

Will the Democrats move to impeach Trump for a narrow brace of violations and accept that the Senate Republicans will keep this outlaw in the White...

A Just Society Doesn’t Criminalize Girls

Too frequently, educational justice is denied for girls – especially for girls of color. Schools should be the safest place for our children and...

Who Is the Audience for the Judiciary Committee Hearing?

What is the purpose and who is the audience for Wednesday’s Judiciary Committee Hearing? The Democrats must do better, for all our sakes. I have...

Celebrating WTO+20 and Looking Forward in Seattle

This past Saturday organizers of the WTO uprising, from Seattle and beyond, collaborated to mark the anniversary, twenty years to the day, in ways...

Kerry's Endorsement of Biden Fits: Two Deceptive Supporters of the Iraq War

On Thursday afternoon, the Washington Post sent out a news alert headlined "John Kerry Endorses Biden in 2020 Race, Saying He Has the Character and...

Trump Fails Again to Bring Our Troops Home From Mideast: Mulling Escalation of 14,000 US Troops to the Middle East to Counter Iran

Trump’s Pentagon is allegedly mulling sending 14,000 US troops to the Middle East to counter Iran. Although the Pentagon pushed back against the...

How the Battle of Seattle Made the Truth About Globalization True

The Battle of Seattle in late November 1999 is, for me, memorable in many ways. For one, I still remember being given a good beating by a...

Amazon Abuses Workers and the Climate—Because It Can

A majority of American households are members of Amazon Prime. All we see with our eyes is the website that we make purchases on and the boxes that...

Despite Warmest Decade on Record, We Still Act Like "Addicts Blowing Our Carbon Budget"

For those following our climate crisis and the near-daily stories of extreme weather being experienced around the world, this will come as no...

Africa Could Power a Green Revolution

Just before this year’s global climate summit opened in Madrid recently, researchers announced that emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels...

Young People Are Escalating to Sit-ins in Politicians’Offices Today. Here’s Why.

Three weeks ago, hundreds of young people stormed the field during the annual Harvard vs Yale football game, holding banners reading, “Nobody...

'Fleeing Not Migrating'

The term “climate refugee” has real meaning for Jose, who says he was forced off his family farm in Tabasco, Mexico due to pollution from oil...

What’s Wrong With the Republicans?

On the Thursday of the second week of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had a special...

Protocols of the Elders of the Republican Party

How do the horrific events of Charlottesville, the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, and a similar hate crime in California...

ICC Holds Hearing on Afghanistan War Crimes, Including US Torture

The International Criminal Court (ICC) opened a three-day hearing in the The Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday at which prosecutors and Afghan...

Envisioning a United World

Let’s bomb Iowa! Or maybe Texas or Michigan or Nebraska . . . Oh wait, I got confused for a second. Those places are part of America and we love...

Is Marijuana a Gateway Drug?

Like nearly all Americans of a certain age, I was told in school that tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana are gateway drugs—and that is why marijuana...

Inside the Battle for Another World

A succession of social upheavals over the last decade has radically realigned political power throughout the world.  As a result of these tectonic...

Donald Trump, the US Private Health Giant, and Top NHS Officials—Special Relationships?

In the UK, we have a simple take on the US healthcare system as a for-profit, private system that fleeces its customers and fails the poor. But...

Everyone Should Watch The Report. Take It From a Guantánamo Bay Lawyer

Professor Turley Is Dead Wrong on Impeachment and Here’s Why

In his opening statement emphasizing the importance of legal standards, George Washington University constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley...

Modern Family Progressive Values Put Conservatives to Shame

In a recent New York Times’ column, Thomas Edsall defends progressives against Attorney General William Barr and other social conservatives who...