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Before and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, Biden showed a distinct lack of interest in actual diplomacy to prevent the war...
When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in a...
This deeply perilous time requires realism—but not fatalism. In the worst of times, solidarity is most needed.
Members of Congress should refuse to echo Biden’s post-election rhetoric and instead speak plainly and forcefully about the rough road ahead to...
The conclusion that Donald Trump is a fascist has gone mainstream, gaining wide publicity and affirmation in recent weeks. Such understanding is a...
While the name of the next president is unknown, some outcomes of the election can be foreseen. For instance: Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris...
Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel...
As each day brings escalation toward a global nuclear inferno, standard-issue legislators on both sides of the aisle keep boosting the Pentagon...
If a nuclear war happens, of course we won’t be around for any retrospective analysis. Or regrets. So, candid introspection is in a category of now...
The quickest way to end the genocide of Palestinians is to stop supplying Israel with US weapons.
Kamala Harris won the debate. People being bombed in Gaza did not. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page -- “Harris...
The silent truth would indict not only the Israeli government but also the U.S. government as an accomplice to mass murder that has escalated into...
Kamala Harris won the debate. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page — “Harris Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce...
As the Gaza war enters its 12th month with no end in sight, the ongoing horrors continue to be normalized in U.S. media and politics. The process has...
By Jonathan Power Two mistakes, committed on President Barack Obama’s watch, were the triggers for the end of the long post-Cold War period of good...
One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the...
One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the...
As the Gaza war enters its 12th month with no end in sight, the ongoing horrors continue to be normalized in U.S. media and politics. The process has...
When Harris delivered her acceptance speech in Chicago, it did not include the words “atomic” or “nuclear” at all.
With nearly 18 million students on U.S. college campuses this fall, defenders of the war on Gaza don’t want to hear any backtalk. Silence is...
Time is running out for Kamala Harris to distance herself from U.S. policies that enable Israel to continue with mass murder and genocide in Gaza....
An observation from George Orwell — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — is...
Soon after the Gaza war began 10 months ago, a prominent newspaper columnist denounced Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., under a headline declaring that...
People like Kansas City Star editorial board member Melinda Henneberger are as cowardly as they are common.
Obsequious loyalty, top-down decision-making, and an obsession with fundraising have made the party less responsible to its rank and file, progressive...
The Biden campaign drove the Democratic Party into a ditch and speculation is rampant about grim prospects for the election. But little scrutiny has...
Trump is now stronger than ever and everything in our power must be done to prevent his reelection.
After surviving an assassination attempt at his Pennsylvania rally, Donald Trump is in a stronger position than ever to win a second term in November....
What we really need to hear from Bernie Sanders is a pledge to do everything he can to see that Donald Trump is defeated. Whether we like it or not,...
It has become clear that only direct intervention by Democrats in Congress, propelled by grassroots pressure, can avert a Biden 2024 train wreck.
During the week since President Joe Biden’s awful debate performance, spinners for his re-election campaign slowly began to admit what actually...
When deference to a leader substitutes fealty for humanity.
New York Congressman Jamaal Bowman lost a primary election Tuesday after unprecedented spending against him by powerful forces that insist...
The merger of American and Israeli militarism is now more comprehensive than ever. Which is why it's imperative to support those who show the...
When someone shows you who they are,” Maya Angelou said, “believe them the first time." That should apply to foreign-policy elites who show you...
With carnage persisting in Gaza, it's easy enough to say that Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has shown us who he is. But so has...
While he can no longer speak to the world about the latest developments, Ellsberg will continue to speak directly to hearts and minds about the...
The dream of humanistic Zionism is collapsing, but—like other entrenched Jewish groups and a declining number of American Jews—J Street is...