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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...
When the Washington Post revealed Friday afternoon that “the Biden administration in recent days quietly authorized the transfer of billions of...
By refusing to cover a new U.S. shipment of vast quantities of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, TheNew York Times gave a boost to a process of normalizing...
Last week, Variety reported that “more than 1,000 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter" denouncing...
What filmmaker Jonathan Glazer said in scarcely one minute at the Oscars retains profound moral power that no distortions can hide.
When we condemn Hamas for its October 7 attacks in Israel, we’re not accused of anti-Arab bigotry. Nor should we be. Nothing could possibly justify...
The gist of the trick is to equate Israel with the Jewish religion—and then to equate opposition to Israel with antisemitism.
Days ago, when the United States cast the only vote in the U.N. Security Council against a resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza, it was yet another...
The electoral base that Biden is going to need for re-election is heavily against his support for Israel’s war on Gaza. There is no way to hide from...
What passes for debate on Capitol Hill is routinely an exercise in green-eyeshade discourse, assessing the most cost-effective outlays to facilitate...
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi is now straddling the thin line between vile demagoguery and pure idiocy. During a Sunday appearance on CNN, she smeared...
Like Congress as a whole, Pelosi refuses to acknowledge that so many Americans are protesting because the Israeli armed forces have been engaged in...
The New Hampshire primary has confirmed that the United States is on the way to a disastrous fall election. Unless a health crisis forces withdrawal...
Biden and Trump both won their party's respective primary in New Hampshire and now the stage is set for an election year unlike anything we've...
Zen wisdom tells us that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Yet it’s easy to fall into the illusion that when we see news about the...
What is most profoundly important about the war in Gaza—what actually happens to people being terrorized, massacred, maimed, and traumatized—has...
Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s a grimly laughable premise, but the...
Have you heard the one about the U.S. government wanting a “rules-based international order”? It’s a grimly laughable premise, but the...
What US foreign policy shamelessly amounts to is this: 'We make the rules so we get to break the rules."
The vast majority of members of Congress have refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, even after three months of slaughter and destruction by...
The vast majority of members of Congress have refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, even after three months of slaughter and destruction by...
Members of Congress, now providing such easy rhetoric in public statements to justify huge and ongoing military support to Israel, would not be so...
The massacre in Uvalde took the lives of 19 children. For nearly three months, the ongoing massacre in Gaza has taken the lives of that many children...
Throughout his adult life, the whistleblower known mostly for leaking The Pentagon Papers was transfixed above all by the imperative of preventing...
One of the rare times that Noam Chomsky’s name has been mentioned on a big national NPR program came two months ago. On “Weekend Edition” in...
Over the decades and with few exceptions, in major U.S. media—notably unlike major media in most of the rest of the world—Chomsky has been persona...
Forty years ago, across a dozen pages of The Nation, I was in a debate with the English historian E.P. Thompson about the U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms...