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The Future According to Trump

For writers, the future has long been a tricky terrain. While the past can prove unsettling and the present uncomfortable, the future seems to free...

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Alfred W. Mccoy

Adam Raskin, My Brother and Comrade, RIP

It never was easy to be Adam Raskin, an uncommon radical, and the youngest of four brothers born to Mildred and Sam who left the Communist Party in...

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Jonah Raskin

America’s Higher Education Promise Is Dead

Education was sold as a guarantee for decades. A college degree represented stability and a future for those who followed the rules of a country...

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Sean Carlton

Lauren Boebert’s All-Out Anti-Wolf Assault on the ESA

Last week, Lauren Boebert’s cynically-named “Pet and Livestock Protection Act” passed the House of Representatives on a narrow, largely party-line...

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Erik Molvar

Iran and the Price of Sovereignty: What It Takes Not to Be a Client State

On June 12, 2025, for the first time after more than twenty years, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors passed a...

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Behrooz Ghamari Tabrizi

TSA Violates Republican Royalty. Will Heads Roll?

Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week after a recent flight.  Writing on X,...

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James Bovard

‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ Director Talks Using Cinema as a Force Against Genocide

As the brutal Israeli assault on Gaza raged with images of unbearable human suffering dominating screens worldwide, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben...

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Alci Rengifo

Redacting Our Reality, One Epstein at a Time

Another Lucy with the football moment has occurred in the United States. Less than 1% of the Epstein file information has been released, and what...

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Kathleen Wallace

Goodbye to Language: The Year in Trumpspeak

Donald Trump often doesn’t know what he’s talking about and no one else does either. But when he talks, people still listen, trying to make sense...

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Trump’s Nuclear Obsession

The Trump family is now directly investing in atomic energy.  Its money-losing Truth Social company has become a part owner of a major fusion...

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Karl Grossman - Harvey Wasserman

Americans Aren’t Traumatized Enough by Gun Violence

The December 14 mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, aimed at the Jewish community during Hanukkah celebrations on Bondi Beach, stunned the world....

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Porn is Still Legal: But For How Much Longer?

When was the last time you watched a porn flick?  It doesn’t matter whether you are a woman or a man, whether straight or gay, whether you watched...

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David Rosen

There’s Little Evidence Tech is Much Help Stopping School Shootings

A group of college students braved the frigid New England weather on Dec. 13, 2025, to attend a late afternoon review session at Brown University...

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Emily Greene-Colozzi

Ignoring International Obligations: Blocking UN Human Rights Delegates in Australia

Bureaucracy, in a formulation by the great German sociologist Max Weber, fanatically defends secrecy, and is bound to confect any explanation in...

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Binoy Kampmark

How Unions Provide a Counterweight to the Epstein Class

A woman, sexually harassed by a manager, appealed to the union for help. Gary Cunningham’s dad took careful note of her pain and distress. And then...

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David Mccall

If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State?

As familiar as the Christmas story of the baby born in a manger might be, it is also a cautionary tale for our age. The Roman Empire, a police...

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John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead

National Single Payer Condemns Acts of U.S. Foreign Aggression, Including Plans for Military Actions Against Venezuela, and the Use of Unilateral Coercive Measures the U.S. Currently Has in Place Against 40 Countries

Summary: National Single Payer, a national, grassroots organization that believes health care is a human right, must be free from profit, and will...

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National Single Payer

Trump Takes Aim at Atmospheric Science

One has to be roasting in Boulder, CO on an unseasonably hot winter day as I presently am (what is “unseasonal” any more), as I currently am, to...

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Ben Rosenfeld

How Many Manufacturing Jobs Has Trump Actually Lost?

In Donald Trump’s imagination, trillions of dollars are being invested in the United States. In the real world, factory construction, adjusted for...

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Dean Baker

The Problem with Machado: Assange Sues the Nobel Foundation

The Swedish police have promised it will go nowhere, but the attempt by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to draw attention to the inappropriateness...

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Binoy Kampmark

A Tribute to Brewster Kneen 1933-2025

I first met Brewster Kneen sometime in the mid 1990’s, in the early days of Family Farm Defenders. One of our all consuming projects at the time...

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Jim Goodman

Global Complicity: Who Kills in the Congo?

In recent years, more people around the world have begun to encounter images of Congo’s suffering on their phones: a child emerging from a cobalt...

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Laura Wittebroek

Who’s the Real Outlaw at Sea? Trump’s Tanker Grab vs. the Houthis’ Anti-Genocide Blockade

The United States has now intercepted multiple Venezuelan oil tankers as part of its escalating aggression against Venezuela, while also destroying...

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Medea Benjamin - Nicolas J. S. Davies

Trump Can’t Hide His Most Serious Illness

When critics suggest potential illnesses President Donald Trump might have, they point to evidence of a possible ailment. They notice bruises on...

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Nick Licata

Genocide by Other Means: Palestinian Babies Murdered by Exposure, Not Bombs

The bombs may have eased, but Palestinian children are still dying. This time, not by Israeli airstrikes, but from cold, and collapsing damaged...

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Jamal Kanj

The Dark Side of Trump’s Moon

People are familiar with the Molotov-cocktail throwers of Trump’s MAGA, like Marjorie Taylor Greene, Laura Loomer, and Steve Bannon. They see on...

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Walden Bello

Booked Up: The Best Books of 2025

America, América: A New History of the New World Greg Grandin (Penguin/Random House) Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea...

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Jeffrey St. Clair

The “President of Peace” Prepares for War

Earlier this month, the Trump administration released its new National Security Strategy, or NSS. Normally, such documents are poor predictors of...

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William Hartung

Confusion at NATO: Rutte, Russia and Delusions about Trump

It was a speech unhinged in millenarian zeal.  It was unapologetically hysterical in urging war while claiming to protect peace.  It was also...

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Binoy Kampmark

Why We Are on Hunger Strike in UK Jails

Amu Gib is one of eight prisoners incarcerated for alleged involvement in direct action against Israeli genocide currently on hunger strike in UK...

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Amu Gib

US Blockades Venezuela in a War Still Searching for an Official Rationale

In our Donald-in-Wonderland world, the US is at war with Venezuela while still grasping for a public rationale. The horrific human toll is real –...

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Roger Harris

Rape Civilization

Though our political, socio-economic world operates according to the dictates of rapacity, many continue to deny the existence of rape culture; a...

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Elliot Sperber

Trump Economy: One Doll, Multiple Dolls

The government shutdown made the November jobs report especially hard to read. There was not just the problem of missing a month of jobs data for...

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Dean Baker

Après le Déluge, un Autre Déluge: a Photo Essay

…A dream I had Of a world all mad. Not a simple happy mad like me, Who am mad like an empty scene Of water and willow tree, Where the wind hath...

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Jeffrey St. Clair

Trump Economy: One Doll, But Multiple Jobs

The government shutdown made the November jobs report especially hard to read. There was not just the problem of missing a month of jobs data for...

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Dean Baker

Trump Destroys Government

I have always supported the idea of government. In a well-functioning democracy, voters elect their representatives to enact policies that reflect...

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John Feffer

Donald Trump’s Scary Weird Address to the Nation

The debased and deranged wannabe fascist strongman-for-life Donald Trump’s bizarre, nationally televised speech to the American people last...

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Paul Street

Peace President? Yeah, Right.

On December 17, surrounded by festive holiday decorations, US president Donald Trump delivered an upbeat — one might even say manic — address to...

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Thomas Knapp

Declining Reading Habits Threaten U.S. Democracy and Social Connection

The United States is in the grip of a reading recession—nearly half of Americans didn’t read a single book in 2023, and fewer than half read even...

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Kate Petty

War and Peace in a Post-European America

The strained smiles and fixed expressions of European and Ukrainian leaders in London recently told their own story. President Zelenskyy met with...

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Peter Bach

Risky Business Continues at Diablo Canyon

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Greg M. Schwartz