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We’ve heard a lot about political realignment since the Donald Trump era began, but even more now that we’re confronted with the brutality and...
The live broadcast of Saturday’s friendly between the US and German national soccer teams in Chicago was quite the eye-opener for international fans...
Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more...
Last year the major anomaly in the labor market seemed to be that we were seeing very weak job growth and only a limited rise in the unemployment...
Historically speaking, consider it strange beyond compare. There may, in fact, be nothing like it in the imperial history of this planet. The United...
If we are to understand the conditions facing vulnerable children, we have to begin with a difficult truth: poverty remains the central force shaping...
The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder to access health care,...
President Donald Trump hates to lose, but he is on a losing streak in the Middle East—not just in Iran, where his illegal, unprovoked war has been a...
If I’d gone to see Morgan Bassichis’s show “Can I Be Frank?” when I meant to, when it premiered at La Mama in 2024, or even at the SoHo...
The massive aerial assault unleashed upon Kyiv and its surrounding regions this week offers a sobering window into the raw, industrial nature of...
The unexpected finally happened, and we may be the better for it. The small Caribbean Island of Mamboland, for many years ruled by a pair of despotic...
“He’ll do whatever I want him to do,” Donald Trump declared recently about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This may be one of the...
The US, with Donald Trump as president, has become a bizarre place. The country is at the moment in a sort of lull in a major war that Trump and his...
America’s 2025 National Security Strategy calls for gaining control of the world’s oil trade. Toward this end, Donald Trump’s Oil War aims at...
The founding insight of the socialist tradition was that the central conflict of modern society is a relation, not a sentiment, between those who own...
Cancelling Billion: Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax By Linda McQuaig and Neil Brooks Dundurn Press...
Call it a repeating script, a rusty template, or simply a creaky model to emulate time and again. The structural and homicidal destruction of Gaza...
The most corrupt president and cabinet in U.S. history are now stealing fees from national parks and federal recreational lands and waters to fund...
Public support for the Impeachment of Donald J. Trump is growing by the day. A March 9, 2026, Task Force report by the New York City Bar – dominated...
Artificial intelligence will almost certainly be the most transformational technology in the history of the world. It will profoundly affect the life...
Over the past couple of years, a hybrid type of activist has emerged in Washington, D.C. To get a paycheck and pay the bills, they toil away inside...
The Trump administration’s appetite for cruelty and its wanton disregard for wasting taxpayer funds has shown itself again – this time in its...
Samcam’s former home in Jinotepe, Nicaragua, daubed with graffiti labelling him a “murderer.” Photo: Confidencial. InSight Crime, a think tank...
In justifying the American attack on Iran a few weeks ago, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth admitted it had nothing to do with nukes, ballistic...
In this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Nadine Ortega, co-founder of Tagnawa Hawai’i, about grassroots...
A sampler, with apologies to Ambrose Bierce. African Americans: an anthropological abstraction; any ethnic grouping or race that can be deleted from...
Early adopters pay a premium for their embrace of innovation. If you bought one of the first electric cars in the United States, you had limited...
This past weekend, the small and beautiful island of Procida offered a warm, heartfelt, and deeply moving welcome to the Freedom Flotilla Italia and...
In the fall of 2003, Alexander Cockburn and I were in Los Angeles for a long weekend shortly after our book, The Politics of Antisemitism, came out....
On Memorial Day, shortly after the tear gas deployed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement dissipated, community members outside New Jersey’s...
The upcoming June 14 vote on limiting Switzerland’s population to 10 million is a daily reminder here in Geneva that nativist populism remains a...
The corporate press has a new obsession, the so-called K-shaped economy. This metaphor is meant to describe a system in which one group of people,...
The road is dusty and trash-strewn. My friend and collaborator Colby Groves is hanging out the car window as I drive, gazing at a patchwork of solar...
Major news outlets have reported on the US and Iran exchanging attacks overnight and early morning on June 3, 2026. Headlines capture the fact that...
There is nothing like walking quietly with a group of committed people through the hot Arizona desert to bring home the deadly reality faced by...
On June 5, 1967, over six days, some three hundred thousand Palestinians were driven from the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza. For roughly half of...
Charles Manson was an archetypal American in a manner similar to Donald Trump. Both men convince(d) others to do things against their better sense,...
Has your family consumed its lump of coal today? In one of the most perverse Big Government moves ever, last year President Trump proclaimed an...
For years, Congress and elected officials across the country have sidestepped one of the clearest economic problems facing working families: the...
More than 15 years ago, the Supreme Court removed limits on corporate political spending in its notorious Citizens United decision, ushering in an era...
A Moody’s white paper released last week highlights growing concerns about flood insurance protection gaps — apprehensions amplified by a Federal...
“We’re gonna win so much, you may even get tired of winning.” — Donald Trump Donald Trump promised Americans they would get tired of winning....
The Machine is virtually impossible to resist, not least because it is found both around us and within us. –Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On...
It all started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza. Since internet lines rarely stay connected, I managed to send a...
Many people are overwhelmed by the fast-paced evolution of mass communication in a world increasingly shaped by the internet and artificial...
Among the hundreds of Trump White House executive orders (EO), No. 14300 directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to weaken its long-standing...
Many activists moved from organizing mass demonstrations and direct actions against Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza to organizing militant...
” a libertarian foreign policy program for America must be to call upon the United States to abandon its policy of global interventionism: to...
As this article was being prepared for publication, the Russian state designated those associated with the website Posle as a “foreign agent.”...
Now that Donald Trump has established himself as the worst president in the history of the United States, George W. Bush can breathe a sigh of relief....
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