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The agreement between Washington and Kyiv to create an investment fund to search for rare earth minerals has been seen as something of a turn by...
Cambridge, UK — I just returned to this medieval English university town last week after a three-and-a-half week visit to the US where my...
The American people, whether they are Democrats, Republicans or Independents, understand that we have a corrupt campaign finance system which...
My first exposure to key work done in Ukraine on the spiritual and psychological rehabilitation of veterans and families came via a recent private...
Biden’s indulgence of the Israeli regime laid the groundwork for President Donald Trump’s more draconian measures. A fateful precedent was set...
with the details of the UK-US trade deal becoming known, the signal - that is, the truth - of the Trump administration's vision for agriculture is...
Few modern political figures have done more to prompt spontaneous national discussions about the Bill of Rights and constitutional limits on...
Yaba Deen,* it has been two weeks since you were born, and these are my first words to you. In the early hours of 21 April, I waited on the other...
On March 15, President Trump’s rendition of immigrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador stunned the world. They include 23 alleged members of...
Tariffs are a tax that a country imposes on itself. It imposes costs in the same way that a tax on gas or beef imposes costs. Tariffs can also harm...
Fifty years ago, on 30 April 1975, the revolutionary forces of the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front entered Saigon, then...
What kind of place is this where the lives of young people can be taken from them, leaving a mangled mess of tissue and bone behind, and where a...
This week, the Resistance in Gaza released American-Israeli dual citizen Eidan Alexander, who had been serving in a foreign army, as a goodwill...
This statement was prepared by Tariq Ra’ouf, a Palestinian American writer, human rights activist, and member of Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG)....
Perhaps you nodded in solidarity as protests began around the country following the mass firings of federal workers, some 30% of whom are veterans....
It is the final week of February 2024, and the City of London, the capital’s ancient financial district, where corporations cluster like woodland...
“Governor [Kathy] Hochul is making a major push to not only build new nuclear plants in New York State but to make N.Y. the center of a nuclear...
The DOJ is arguably alone among federal agencies in its degree of opacity and in its lack of accountability: it is the only federal government body...
Movement toward war with China accelerates. The public, focused on troubles currently upending U.S. politics, does not pay much attention to a war...
Among the Trump administration’s many disturbing shifts in foreign policy, one of its more shameful moves has been to use foreign aid as a tool for...
The BRICS Bank actually sanctioned its 20% member Moscow because of the credit rating agencies in New York… I think the reparations we should be...
With competing narratives of victimization, one narrative is abused. One man looks up to the sky crying at the top of his lungs as their wife and...
People in cults often find it nearly impossible to get outside the cult outlook on the world. This is very much true of the leading intellectuals...
Jimmie Christian Duncan learned in April 2025 that a Louisiana judge had dismissed his capital murder conviction and he would no longer face the...
Every kid has heard “No means no!” when they want something their parents don’t think they should have. This week that phrase got a couple high...
Empire’s don’t collapse; they commit inevitable suicide by destroying their primary sources of wealth: respect and industry. The American empire...
New Yorkers can count among their fortunes both their plentiful waters and the many organizations that protect lakes, rivers, and reservoirs from...
Military parades are a joke, like an old man driving a convertible or marrying someone fifty years younger than them (or both). In other words,...
Donald Trump is not very good with arithmetic, but that is not a reason the rest of us should not use it. The US economy shrank at 0.3 percent...
The occasion of electing another Pope was a spectacle in time and, in many ways, outside it. It was the one rare occasion in the twenty-first...
It’s hard to recall, given the unfathomable desperation now stalking Gaza, but for a fleeting moment earlier this year there was joy in the air...
Without Rhyme or Reason “We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into this global order. And they took advantage of all its benefits. But they...
The Earth is “on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster,” according to “The 2024 State of the Climate Report.” Sounding the alarm on the “...
Early this year, as snow froze into sheets of solid ice, covering the ground for weeks, almost 20% of St. Louis Public School students were...
s the Democratic party losing touch with working class voters? It’s hardly a debatable claim anymore. Exit polls from last November’s presidential...
In February, President Trump said that tariffs would generate so much income that Americans would no longer need to pay income taxes. The latest...
Ancient oak trees rise above gigantic boulders scattered across a high desert mesa in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest. This is Oak Flat (Chi’ chil...
The Israeli bombing of Gaza since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack has been marked by one demand: the release of all Israeli hostages taken by Hamas. As has...
In this exclusive interview, renowned international law scholar and former UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falkengages with educator and journalist...
The Trump regime’s approval numbers are sinking. Americans are in the streets protesting the regime’s cruel abuses of power. And Democratic voters...