|
Sonali KolhatkarCounterPunch |
It has been a safe assumption for generations that young people tend to be more liberal than their elders. However, in today’s United States, some...
Republicans are counting on fears of immigrants to draw white conservatives to the polls. This calculation is dangerous — and
My oldest born is a high school junior, taking his first steps into the hypercompetitive and bewildering world of undergraduate college applications...
A Florida resident named Isaac Menasche received a home visit this September from a police officer asking whether he’d signed a petition for a...
A Florida resident named Isaac Menasche received a home visit this September from a police officer asking whether he’d signed a petition for a...
The vast majority of Americans believe that the United States economy is unfairly rigged to benefit the rich. In the past few weeks, the Democratic...
The vast majority of Americans believe that the United States economy is unfairly rigged to benefit the rich. In the past few weeks, the Democratic...
As he runs for reelection in 2024, former president Donald Trump has made the outlandish claim that “millions of people [have crossed the United...
Harris’s language of “opportunity agenda” leans right. She shared at the DNC, “My mother kept a strict budget. We lived within our means. Yet,...
In spite of the enormous amount of pro-corporate propaganda against universal healthcare, a majority of Americans have historically supported...
What will it take to end Israel’s genocide in Gaza? That’s the question confounding people of conscience all over the world since last October....
When President Joe Biden said in a phone call to MSNBC’s Morning Joe recently, “I’m getting so frustrated with the elites… the elites of the...
Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025, a...
Conservatives have done the United States a huge favor by explaining in detail what they’ll try to do if Donald Trump is reelected. Project 2025, a...
But Medicare Advantage (MA) is not a government-run healthcare program. It’s merely a way to turn tax dollars into profits for private health...
The New York Times, long considered the “newspaper of record” in the United States, has in recent weeks made no secret about its chief concern:...
There is an obscure mechanism by which fossil fuel companies maintain their global domination even as their products are destroying our futures. Most...
Many Americans are celebrating the news of Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony charges in a hush-money incident that took place ahead of the...
The Miami Herald recently reported on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) latest forecast predicting a record-breaking...
Workers at companies like Apple and Starbucks face armies of union-busting lawyers advising employers to repeatedly violate labor laws. Workers
Manufacturers of the new weight-loss drugs that have taken the nation by storm are salivating at the prospect of how
The student-led movement against the genocide in Gaza that is sweeping college campuses across the United States, has made “divestment” from...
There are several exercises in extremes playing out in India right now. Nearly a billion people are voting in elections that will
EV prices have come down in recent years, but they’re still unaffordable for the majority of Americans; too bad they can’t access China’s new...
It might seem like there’s never been a better time to buy an electric vehicle. If you go by the headlines, you might be forgiven for thinking you...
When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, higher education institutions throughout the United States started adopting a progressive standard of...
The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore has sent shock waves throughout the United States. The bridge was not built to withstand a...
It seems that there has never been a better time than now to buy an electric vehicle in the United States, especially if you read news...
Expanding the racist criminal justice system is a cynical GOP election-era ploy, one that has little to do with public safety.
Many Americans haven’t heard of cash bail. But the idea is central to an election year battle over racism, policing, and mass incarceration. When...
There are many issues on the line this election year but one that gets little attention is former President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax reform...
Pharmaceutical companies are angry with Bernie Sanders. The Vermont senator has vowed to force pharma CEOs to publicly answer for why their drug...
Streaming television channels these days are increasingly inserting advertising into their paid subscriber content. Thus, I recently found myself...
As Israel’s war on Gaza continues unabated, the United States, which holds great leverage over Israel’s conduct, is seemingly helpless in stopping...
Most Americans have not considered “cash bail” as critical to equality and freedom. The term is an esoteric one but is increasingly central to the...
Americans have been on a vacation binge since the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. In particular, the vacation rental company Airbnb is thriving....
Major pharmaceutical companies in the United States are battling with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders over an issue that is at the heart of whether we...
When United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain called for a ceasefire in Israel’s assault on Gaza in mid-December, his union was among the...
In January 2023, nearly a year before the latest United Nations climate conference began, there was deep concern and alarm over the
FacebookTwitterRedditEmail ’Tis the season for holiday sales. But on the other side of the planet, there’s a high cost for
Bangladeshi garment workers have demanded a modest $205 a month, but pay increases offered by the country’s manufacturers totaled barely half that.