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The phrase “civil war” is one of the most dominant terms used by Israeli politicians today. What began as a mere warning from Israeli President...
“Any city that doesn’t have a Tenderloin isn’t a city at all” – Herb Caen, longtime San Francisco Chronicle columnist Few San Francisco...
As the world braces for another Earth Day, the environmental justice movement is at a critical juncture. While much of the climate conversation...
Minority Staff Report, United States Senate, SUBCOMMITTEE ON SOCIAL SECURITY, PENSIONS, AND FAMILY POLICY, Bernie Sanders, Ranking Member, March...
“Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations” Nikola Tesla wrote in 1905, “invariably result from misunderstandings in the...
In recent years, heart-rending images of dead or dying sea mammals and fish, their stomachs stuffed with plastic, have shocked citizens around the...
The radical return to protectionism is not only possible but necessary for an empire facing an undeniable decline. It has been denounced by...
President Trump’s latest hint of using the U.S. military to annex Greenland if its leaders and 55,772 (2025) violently disagree (anti-U.S...
Israel’s renewed assault on Gaza comes several months after both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports concluding without...
There has been a fascinating, near unanimous condemnation among the cognoscenti about the seemingly careless addition of Jeffrey Goldberg of The...
With Donald Trump seemingly determined to push the US economy on a path towards autarky, our major trading partners will need to make alternative...
So where do you see yourself living the rest of your life? The richest among us are keeping their options all open. On the one hand, our deepest...
For the past 20 years, the Washington Post’s David Ignatius has been the mainstream media’s leading apologist for the Central Intelligence Agency,...
The second administration of President Donald J. Trump has already started working its special magic across the Washington, D.C. capital region....
President Donald Trump told an NBC interviewer on March 30, 2025, that he was “not joking” about a third term as president, despite such a term...
Senator Bernie Sanders has been holding public meetings about what he calls “Fighting Oligarchy.” There is much good about this. At the same time,...
Driven by geopolitical interests and the scramble for resources, the Ukrainian conflict has already claimed countless lives and displaced millions....
I attended Rashid Khalidi's course, History of the Modern Middle East, 20 years ago and still think about it. Amid Columbia's sea of polished and...
Freedom of speech is kind of like eggs nowadays – too expensive! For Columbia University, the cost imposed on it by the Trump administration was...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is waging a war on many fronts. He has ended the tense ceasefire with Hamas in Gaza in spectacularly...
Sorry to step away from my usual economics beat, but this is important. And to be clear, I am not at all a fan of the war on the Houthis, but that...
The news of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest surprised me. It’s not that I doubted the former leader of the Philippines was guilty of the horrific crimes...
In yet another brazen war crime, the Israeli army has murdered eight medics, six civil defense responders, and a United Nations employee. The...
The arrival of COVID-19 in the United States kicked off an ongoing period of job insecurity within the media industry. In April 2020, the New York...
Many Americans felt anxious and fearful about the Trump administration long before it assumed power in January. Three months after Trump’s...
Dr Kildare is dead. The actor who played him in the series during the 1960s, Richard Chamberlain–and who I met briefly on a plane ride from LA to...
Amidst the orchestrated, ceremonial releases of the October 7th Israeli hostages from Gaza, we also witnessed the freeing of Avera Mengistu, an...
At a time when nihilistic bullies glory in doing perverse damage to the environment and to our ability to think and learn about the environment, it...
At a time when nihilistic bullies glory in doing perverse damage to the environment and to our ability to think and learn about the environment, it...
Elon Musk’s DOGE has taken a particularly keen interest in Social Security – and not in a good way. Musk called the program a Ponzi Scheme and has...
Israel has resumed its aerial bombardment of Gaza. The latest ceasefire, which lasted two months and led to the release of 33 Israeli hostages and...
Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in...
March 27, 2025, marked 48 years since the death of Shirley Graham DuBois, the prominent African American writer, scholar, and social activist. She...
Terminus, the Roman god of borders and boundary stones, had a motto: I Yield to No One. In the old days, lambs and piglets died in blood sacrifices...
The face is a mirror of the mind. Ovid The General Security Administration in Syria has issued an executive order prohibiting its personnel from...
In a genocidal war that has spiraled into a struggle for political survival, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition and the global...
The vast undercount of Israeli-caused deaths in Gaza is regularly reported as 50,000. The actual toll from violent military action and the indirect...
On Thursday, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Madeleine Dean reintroduced the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act in the U.S....
The struggle of Africa and the Middle East against foreign oppression did not end with the fall of colonial empires. Instead, it evolved into new...
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Atomic Energy’s death spiral has spawned a run to green power. But the toxic mineral lithium has become a critical pitfall…with clear ways around...
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Recently in New York State, prison guards, largely to counter media exposés of their brutalities—like the beating death of Robert Brooks at Marcy...