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Few episodes better illustrate the strange politics of today’s Ukraine debate than Laura Loomer’s journey from one of the loudest voices of the...
The Trump administration has been going on an offensive to suppress social movements. From unprecedented criminal sentences against immigrant rights...
My AI and I have good days and bad days. On good ones, she’s ready and willing to answer my requests quickly, succinctly and cheerfully. (I...
Climate change is the force behind the greatest migration storm of all time. It will be 500,000,000 or maybe 2,000,000,000 nobody knows for sure how...
Outspent 11 to 1 by Congresswoman Haley Stevens, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed's August 4 win in the Michigan Democratic primary for the party's U.S. Senate...
Several weeks after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, I finally sat down to watch Trump’s performance. The Dinner is one occasion when the...
Most people who society labels “environmentalists” begin their vocation in defense of their own local environment. If they continue that campaign,...
Fascism, not anti-fascism, is the threat, both domestically and internationally. It’s a common Trumpian tactic: to blame adversaries for that which...
LA’s early diversions nearly destroyed Mono Lake, which lost half its volume and dropped 45 feet. Toxic dust began to swirl, and gulls’ nesting...
Every day we scroll past photographs of burned children, bombed-out neighborhoods, families clawing through rubble with their bare hands, and parents...
It wasn’t so very long ago that there were three great powers reasonably ascendant on planet Earth. I’m thinking, of course, about the greatest...
Most politicians pledge to work for the working class, or sometimes for working families, a less Marxist-sounding label. Meanwhile, scholars struggle...
“The change we are planning will be the biggest change in our lifetimes to the way the country is run.” So said Andy Burnham on 29 June, a month...
A friend once said to me, “Prison seems like a crime college for some and a complete waste of time for others. It doesn’t rehabilitate people in...
Tribute Exhibition for NYC Galleries Gertrude Stein (1927-2026) 26 March— 16 May 2026 Curated by James Cavello, in collaboration with Boris Lurie...
During the same historical period that the United States has targeted Cuba with blockades that last for decades– and now a full blown naval blockade...
I have a deep respect and affection for Homer. I do indeed think of him as the teacher of the Greeks. My understanding of Homer is no different than...
What goes around comes around. That is the terrible law of blowback. When the United States bombs another country, threatens its government, kills its...
This may seem like a slightly belated reaction to India’s President’s visit to Macedonia 20-23 July. Yet the event deserves a brief reflection...
Since its last two murders in mid-July, ICE, mothballed for a mere 24-hours, has dropped out of the news. Its stop and shoot habit, one can only...
As the U.S. celebrates its 250th anniversary, its citizens commemorate a democracy more diverse, free and inclusive than it’s ever been. The path to...
August 7 will be a dark day, for it is when Colombia’s presidential turnover is set to take place. On this day, which marks the anniversary of the...
Last month, the Social Security Administration released a report finding that by 2032 the Social Security Trust Fund will be able to cover just 78...
The geography of the crisis seemed widely misunderstood. Ceuta has remained under Portuguese and subsequently Spanish sovereignty since 1415,...
The U.S. public has been skeptical of the blockade for decades. A 2016 Pew Research Center poll revealed that 73% of Americans favored ending the...
Yes, I’m on the fly when it comes to — or do I mean I’m a fly on the wall of? — our most recent history. I’m not sure which, but whatever...
A Deal Without Safeguards The Trump administration has approved a deal with Saudi Arabia under which the US will provide the material and technical...
During one of my days in Nicosia, I decided to travel north to the coastal town of Girne, which before the division was known as Kyrenia. On my map it...
At 2 AM Michigan time last night, NBC projected that AIPAC's candidate was on her way to look for a new job. Representative Haley Stevens' defeat in...
The U.S.-Israeli invasion of Israel was planned as a short war, but it is turning into an unmitigated, gale-force cock-up. Fighting continues in the...
The Democratic Socialists of America boast a historically large membership with a range of views on a variety of subjects. I recently sought to...
When a gunman opens fire in a crowded venue or a vehicle plows into pedestrians in Berlin, New York or London, the linguistic reflex of Western...
In the month celebrating 250 years of red, white and blue, Americans were seeing plenty of red — and not just as part of commemorative trifectas or...
Over 70 delegates from 43 organizations across 17 countries gathered in Colombo from 16-18 July for the ‘Hands Off Asia’ conference, organized by...
“I don’t care about the midterms.” —Donald Trump “We’re not gonna lose an election for a hundred years.” —Donald Trump As the midterms...
So the geniuses in the white house have begin to suspect that maybe, just maybe, as journalist Mark Ames noted on X, after weeks of CIA-targeted...
Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws, including the Clean...
The rooftop of Azotea de la India in Centro Habana offers respite. At this elevation, just peaking over the rival buildings, the sea breeze races...
So much going on. Existential crises. Fundamental needs. Short and long term agendas. Sounds heard all around the world. Much to think about. Much to...
Every major spiritual and moral tradition carries a similar invitation: Treat others as you wish to be treated. Love your neighbor. Protect the...
On August 11, 2025, Donald Trump ordered the Secretary of Defense to mobilize the D.C. National Guard to combat what he claimed was “an epidemic of...
Before the last presidential election, Adolph Reed Jr. argued that “electoral politics has captured too much of the political imagination of the...
The UK Green Party’s former leader Caroline Lucas recently nailed the Labor Party for “burying the most explosive report” of the year by UK...
Although 81 years have passed since the atomic bombing of Japan in August 1945, the rulers of major nations continue their reckless march toward a...
The new in-thing for Donald Trump and Republicans is to call their Democratic opponents socialists and communists. Their focus groups apparently show...
Pilar Troya Fernández is an Ecuadorian anthropologist with a master’s degree in gender studies and a researcher at the Tricontinental Institute for...
Is humanity’s “invisible hand” reappearing? In 1998 a monster El Niño was roiling the Pacific, skewing weather patterns all over the planet....
About 3,300 years ago, in the region around the Mediterranean, civilization collapsed. That’s what the archaeological record shows: the spectacular...
It is a stew of inedible quality. But eat it we are expected to do. Consider the stomach-churning ingredients. FIFA, an opaque organisation of mafia...
Unfortunately, Labor Day has become a long weekend for mattress sales and political platitudes when it should be the annual day when working people...
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