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How to Win the Nation’s Highest Minimum Wage

  Tourism workers in Southern California just won a historic battle for the highest minimum wage in the nation—a perfect counterpoint to the ...

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Sonali Kolhatkar

Will the United States Have an Unpredictable Past?

The belief that Russia is a country with an unpredictable past is a common one, frequently cited in academic and cultural studies.  Now the Trump...

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Melvin Goodman

Israeli Lies and Western Complicity: How Deceit Became a Weapon of War

Throughout its long history of ethnic cleansing and occupation, Israel has remained consistent in its tactics: lie, deny, and distort the...

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Jamal Kanj

Never Mind the South African Whites: Let the U.S. Open Its Doors to Palestinians and Israeli Jews

Donald Trump’s offer of U.S. sanctuary to white South Africans is rightly considered a racist gesture not justified by any serious discrimination...

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Richard E. Rubenstein

Hiding Worker Exploitation Behind an App 

Alejandro thought that driving full-time for Uber offered freedom — flexible hours, quick cash, and time to care for his young son. But that...

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Lena Simet

“Antisemitism” The Making of Our Political Panic

On May 15, 2025, Logan Rozos was the selected student speaker at NYU’s Gallatin School commencement. Briefly addressing the large crowd of faculty,...

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David Theo Goldberg

Trump’s Palantir-Powered Surveillance Is Turning America Into a Digital Prison 

Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized,...

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John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead

Is ICE Deporting the Next Mozart?

Two children – a nine-year old boy and his six-year old sister – are playing at “house”, pretending to be their father and mother. Absorbed in the...

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Ariel Dorfman

Here She Comes: AOC Looks to Defy Expectations as Her Meteoric Rise Continues

Impossible. It’s never happened before. Are you kidding? That’s how most political commentators – virtually across the spectrum – describe the...

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Stewart Lawrence

Will Montana’s Leaders Stand Up to TACO Don?

It hasn’t been a good week for the guy who decided he was going to be a king and spent his first four months in office ignoring the law, declaring...

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George Ochenski

Putting the Avant in Avant-Garde, New York in the Long Sixties

Underground films, transvestites, hippies and freaks, businessmen and secretaries checking out the other side of life, plastic people and people...

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Ron Jacobs

Evil Times: Trump’s Cruelest Policies

Most of Trump’s second term declarations and executive orders have been unwise (tariffs) or just plain silly (Gulf of America).  Some of them have...

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L. Michael Hager

Never Again?

It is now imperative to acknowledge what people of conscience the world over know to be true: The State of Israel is operating a Death Camp for the...

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Gary Fields

Stopping Covid-19 Vaccines to Force Testing of Their Efficacy is Bad Science and Bad Public Health Policy

Should a healthy 52-year-old woman with a normal BMI who has had Covid-19 three times and has received six previous doses of a Covid-19 vaccine get...

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Moshe Adler

My Abundance Agenda

Since “abundance” is apparently the in-thing, I thought I should get in on the act. At the onset, I will admit I don’t have much new to offer to...

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Dean Baker

Climate Change and the Border-Industrial Complex in the Trump Era

Believe it or not, I had a transcendent experience at this year’s Border Security Expo, the annual event that brings Customs and Border Protection...

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Todd Miller

Foreign Students Aren’t Just a Large Source of Export Revenue, They Were a Rapidly Growing One

Remember when Donald Trump was worried about our trade deficit? Yeah, that must have been days ago. But anyhow, as I and others have pointed out,...

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Dean Baker

Media Shortcomings in Covering Terrorist Netanyahu’s Daily Gaza Mass Murdering

Opposition by former high officials in Israeli’s military and national security establishment and Israeli allies – France, England, and Germany...

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Ralph Nader

Marco Rubio: The Secretary of Statelessness

Marco Rubio is the uber-mensch of the Trump administration.  He is the secretary of state, the acting national security adviser, the acting...

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Melvin Goodman

History and the Plague of Fascism

Introduction On October 24, 1970, in writing for the Amsterdam weekly, Vrij Nederland, Dutch journalist and Trotskyite Igor Cornelissen,...

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Daniel Falcone

Gaza’s Destruction Injures Israel Forever

Those five days in November were cold, and seemed colder inside the gates of Auschwitz and of Birkenau. We were 90 retreatants from many nations –...

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Melody Ermachild Chavis

Trump’s Hawk Lands in Mexico: Ronald Johnson’s Appointment Sparks Outcry Over U.S. Interference

A storm is brewing in U.S.–Mexico relations, and its epicenter is the newly appointed U.S. ambassador: Ronald Johnson, a former Green Beret and CIA...

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Teri Mattson

“These Could be Our Children:” Israeli Women Opposing the War, an Interview

“We woke up to the horrifying news that over 100 children had been killed in Gaza that very night. The four of us—myself, Amit, Alma, and Danielle—...

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Ibrahim Quraishi

Three Steps Forward, 10 Steps Back: George Floyd’s Murder and Aftermath

Five years ago, George Floyd, an African American, was murdered by a white police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during an arrest made after a...

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John Kendall Hawkins

Genocide (Very) Bad with Sim Kern

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk to Sim Kern, author of the brand new, New York Times bestseller,...

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Love Me, Love Me, Love Me, I’m a Neoliberal: The Invisible Men

Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still from The Invisible Doctrine. Still...

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Ed Rampell

Liberal Illusions in an Age of Violence

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Daragh Cogley

Against the Erasure Machine: Scholasticide, Memory and the Power of Pedagogy

In an age where culture is the primary battlefield, authoritarianism thrives on ignorance, historical amnesia and the brutal aesthetics of cruelty,...

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Henry Giroux