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Chatbot Unions: The Dawn of AI Marriages

What makes up a marriage has been the subject of state, community and tribal control since human society took some form.  Who is to marry whom; the...

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Binoy Kampmark

Inherited Economies

Donald Trump may not be able to remember what things were like five years ago, when he handed the economy and the country to Joe Biden, but it is...

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Dean Baker

The Political, the Personal and the Polemical: Eric Foner on Freedom

A student of historiography and the study of history, as well as history itself, Eric Foner would like yet another American Revolution, one which...

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Jonah Raskin

The Cold Rush

The Arctic, once a distant and desolate expanse, is now at the epicenter of global competition. March 2025 marked a grim milestone: the smallest...

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Imran Khalid

How New York and Seattle Mayoral Victories Point the Way to Systemic Change

The subversive power of imagination In my last post I recalled the vision of historian William Appleman Williams seeking an American future beyond...

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Patrick Mazza

Rich Countries at COP30 Are Robbing the Global South of Climate Financing

UN climate conferences are primarily announcement summits. For 30 years, industrialized countries, which are primarily responsible for the climate...

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David Goeßmann

“Things Happen”: Murder According to Trump

Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Seven years later, Donald Trump ...

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Ipek S. Burnett

Gaza’s Open Casket

Disfigured by 200,000 tons of American bombs, the mountain of rubble called Gaza represents the open casket of Emmett Till, whose funeral forced...

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Khalid Afsar

Can the World Quit Coal?

As world leaders and thousands of researchers, activists and lobbyists meet in Brazil at the 30th annual United Nations climate conference, there...

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Stacy D. Vandeveer

A Question of Needlessness: Selling Iron Dome to Australia

The world of defence policy is truly another planet. There, budgets are given to astronomical burgeoning and bizarre readings.  Threats can be...

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Binoy Kampmark

One Aircraft Carrier or Health Care Coverage for Tens of Thousands?

There’s an old protest sign I can’t stop thinking about. It read, “It will be a great day in America when our schools have all the money that they...

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Laura Flanders

Trump Should Win the Nobel War Prize

On his recent tour of Asia, Donald Trump picked up a number of gifts, including a golden replica of a Silla crown in South Korea and a golden golf...

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John Feffer

Trump’s “New” Ideas on Health Care

Donald Trump is so lost on so many issues that he can’t even understand how lost he is. This is perhaps most evident with his “$20 trillion” in...

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Dean Baker

The Democratic Party Lacks Competent Leadership

Members of the Democratic Party are arguing over who was responsible for their failed attempt to use the government shutdown to pressure the...

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Nick Licata

You Do It to Yourself

So Thom Yorke has just insisted Radiohead will “absolutely not” perform in Israel under Netanyahu. This marks a clear departure from their previous...

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Peter Bach

Electoral Coup Surfaces in Honduras Amid Signs of US Intervention 

Elections taking place November 30 in Honduras will decide the country’s next president and make-up of the national assembly. Current President...

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W. T. Whitney

Trump’s Gaza Colonization Coming To Fruition

In the increasingly noxious world in which we live, a country can make clear precisely how a campaign of ethnic cleansing will advance, and yet it...

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Lee Camp

Profiteering, Protection Rackets & a Pay-to-Play Presidency 

Pay-to-play schemes. Protection rackets. Extortion. Corruption. Self-enrichment. Graft. Grift. Brutality. Roaming bands of thugs smashing car...

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John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead

A Bold Campaign to Confront Global Crises

Although the world is experiencing severe global crises, there are new efforts underway to create a more effective means of coping with them. The...

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Lawrence Wittner

Human Gene Editing and the CRISPR Revolution

A major medical milestone took place in May 2025, when doctors at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia used CRISPR-based gene editing to treat a...

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John P. Ruehl

How China is Turning Climate Action Into Economic Strategy

If global climate diplomacy feels stuck, China’s new 2035 roadmap offers a reminder that ambition and realism can coexist. As world leaders gather...

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Imran Khalid

Being Tone Deaf Is Not the Same as Telling Outright Lies: That Should be Obvious

I have followed economic reporting for many decades. I don’t generally give it high marks. Maybe I’m just stupid for thinking the purpose of...

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Dean Baker

How the Rightwing has Used AI and Influencers to Make Up an Anti-Government Movement in Mexico

"Down with communism," they chanted while also waving the One Piece pirate flag, meant to be a symbol of resistance to elitist excess, corruption,...

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Tamara Pearson

In Light of the Antifa Designation: Rethinking What We Call ‘Terrorism’

With Trump’s designation of the Antifa movement as a terrorist organization, it is an appropriate time for reconsidering what ‘terrorism’ means....

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Peter Crowley

We Must Resist Trump’s War Agenda At Home And Abroad

As Donald Trump continues to ramp up his immigration raids and slash social programs, one theme is consistent through his press conferences and...

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Abraham Márquez

Canary Mission: A Blacklist Shapes Immigration, Policing, and Pro-Palestinian Discourse

What is Canary Mission? The Canary Mission, a pro-Israel website, first appeared in the spring of 2015 with a series of online attacks on...

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The Super Predator: How Humans Became the Animal Kingdom’s Most Feared Hunters

Hunting is considered critical to human evolution by many researchers who believe that several characteristics that distinguish humans from our...

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John Divinagracia

Conservation Groups Sue Bureau of Land Management to Stop Destruction of Critical Sage Grouse Habitat

Greater sage grouse occupied more than 460,000 square miles across 13 Western states, including Montana, and three Canadian provinces before...

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Mike Garrity

When Charlotte’s Web Became a Snare

A reflection on EB White’s lessons, community, and the human cost of a federal immigration sweep. As a young boy, there were a few books that left...

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George Payne

Targeting Palantir and Nvidia: Profits, Prophets and Overvalued AI Stocks

In an industry of seedy soothsayers, cocksure charlatans and resourceful rogues, honest and accurate appraisals are exquisitely rare.  When it...

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Binoy Kampmark

Google on Christmas Island: Data Centres and Imminent Militarisation

Google has become something of a fixture in digital infrastructure in the Pacific.  In late 2023, Canberra announced a joint project with the US,...

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Binoy Kampmark

On Professional Silence During Genocide: The 2025 Sigourney Award

November 13, 2025. The Palestine-Global Mental Health Network and the International Collective of the Palestine Mental Health Networks,...

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Palestine-Global Mental Health Network

Trump’s Operation Southern Spear is a New Front in His Widescale Militarization

In an escalation of militarism toward Latin America, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced the start of Operation Southern Spear to target...

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Sam Carliner

“Empire Strikes Back!” Oligarchs and Values Fatigue in Latvia’s Rejection of the Istanbul Convention

Europe’s political classes were backfooted by Latvia’s Parliament (Saeima) vote to pull out of the Istanbul Convention (IC), the treaty protecting...

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Jeffrey Sommers – Cosmin Marian

Antisemitism, Campus Censorship and Freedom of Expression

Is it antisemitic to protest the State of Israel for its military occupation of Palestinian territory and its policies toward Palestinians that...

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Gary Fields

Queens Tenants Fight for Dignified Housing and against the War Economy

 On 8 November, 2025, dozens of tenants gathered in front of La Mesa Verde housing complex in Jackson Heights, Queens. In La Mesa Verde alone, 859...

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Celina Della Croce

The Wrath of the Con Man

Kathryn Bigelow’s new nuclear thriller, A House of Dynamite, has been criticized by some experts for being unrealistic, most notably because it...

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William D. Hartung - Ashley Gate

Nuremberg Law Should Apply to Nuclear Weapons Before They’re Used Again

With another film depiction of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal story being debuted, today’s plans and preparations involving thermonuclear weapons...

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John Laforge

Polyamorous Americans

Since the nation’s founding, those in authority have sought to promote a morality of “family values” anchored in a belief in the patriarchal,...

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David Rosen

50 Year Mortgages: What Bill Pulte Does When He Isn’t Reviewing Mortgages of Trump’s Enemies

The person heading the Federal Housing Financial Authority (FHFA), the agency overseeing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, usually doesn’t get much...

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Dean Baker

A Palestinian Anne Frank

Still from Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk. Still from Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk. Still from Put Your Soul On Your Hand and Walk....

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Ed Rampell

The Disappearance of Public Intellectuals and the Corporate University

Public intellectuals have declined due to self-censorship, administrative demands, and corporatization of universities.​ Academic freedom is in...

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Bradley Kaye