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The hoopla surrounding the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence seemingly reflects another unfortunate instance of historical amnesia....
Two hundred and fifty years after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all people possess inalienable rights, we now live under a...
Trump 2.0 has been marked by a barrage of attacks on social movements. A key pillar of this repression has been the use of extreme legal measures...
That title of mine is certainly repetitive of me (me, me), but how can you not be repetitive in the distinctly repeated world of Donald J. Trump...
Most of the West’s perennial wildfire plague is due to human stupidity. But it’s not just the careless people who start the fires, it’s also all...
On June 2, the US Postal Service proposed a new rule in the Federal Register on standards for handling of mail ballots, with public comment open...
When something is not working, abandon it. The policymaker and politician, the latter often inclined to populist temptation and the endless tapping...
Sunlight splashed colors from the twin fountains of the Rainbow Pool. Lincoln recalled how the rainbows looked before the waterworks were split apart...
People’s negative assessments of the economy continue to be somewhat of a mystery. The recent run-up in gas prices and inflation more generally is...
Here we are at the end of a month-long celebration of the life and work of the poet Allen Ginsberg (1926-2026) and I haven’t said a word about his...
Cindy Folkers and Ian Fairlie have written an essential book. The Scientists Who Alerted Us to the Dangers of Radiation presents the findings of 39...
Republican immigration policy turns people fleeing a global order shaped in part by U.S. power into culprits—and then asks them to bear the costs of...
As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress...
Lessons learned are supposed to be insights and practical takeaways from past experience. The guest essays in the New York Times are arguing that such...
For the record, as someone who distrusts the CIA and who spent years studying MKUltra. I believe MKUltra died within the agency in the 1960s. It died...
The renowned political theorist Danielle Allen once wrote, “The Declaration of Independence matters because it helps us to see that we cannot have...
Contemporary political conversations talk a lot about the problem of money in politics, but they almost never acknowledge that modern corporate power...
Out of an approximate 755,000 unhoused people in the United States, there are no reliable estimates for the number who live in motels. I have passed...
Growing drought and heatwaves are expanding wildfire acreage. Wildfire Tucumcari NM. Photo by George Wuerthner Most residents of the West are aware...
As Americans prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, few are paying attention to a bill moving through Congress...
Two hundred fifty years ago, Americans rejected monarchy. They rejected the idea that power should rest in the hands of one person, one family, or a...
For the last several years I’ve been using real spending at fast food restaurants as a gauge for assessing how the non-rich are feeling about their...
Former US national security advisor John Bolton and President Donald J. Trump share traits neither probably knew they had. The latter, for one, is far...
Yes, I’ve written about it before (and before that, too), but it still strikes me whenever… oh, sorry, this almost 82-year-old just nodded off...
It is one of the most remarkable ways to fall from grace. Leading British Labour to a deceptively crushing victory over diddling, muddling, decrepit...
Collection drives for food, clothing, medicine, and other essential goods have sprung up across Venezuela. Here, members of Provincial Trujillo...
In 1950, the fourth FIFA World Cup was held in Brazil from June 24 to July 16. Brazil became the finalist of its group by defeating Mexico 4–0,...
On June 23, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and...
This week marks the anniversary of the enactment of one of the most consequential pieces of labor legislation in US history. The Labor Management...
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has just issued a statement headed: “Governor Hochul Announces Major Milestone To Facilitate New Advanced Nuclear...
David Mislin, Temple University Amid celebrations of America’s 250th anniversary, assertions of the country’s religious, and specifically...
Thousands of people in the U.S. die from extreme heat, cold, and lack of care every year, including many of our unhoused neighbors. As climate change...
Taking an invention and claiming it as yours is called intellectual property, based on practices followed by US and European businesses. But what...
Events in Cuba have flown under the radar lately, but big changes are afoot. Noted by PBS June 19 but only belatedly by anybody else, Cuba’s new...
The big news coming out of the Teamsters’ recent convention in Las Vegas is that for the first time in 35 years, there will be no rank-and-file...
Not long after the second Trump administration took office, a new power center emerged in Washington under the banner of “government efficiency.”...
Prologue I have always been skeptical of the viability and potential benefits of AI technologies. This is because they are primarily war technologies,...
One thing is certain. The U.S. lost its war of choice against Iran. Trump and Netanyahu failed to eliminate the perceived Iranian nuclear threat,...
Phrases like “public benefit,” “impact,” “responsibility,” or “sustainability” are routinely used by universities, nonprofits,...
“We have nothing to do with that.” An American Medical Association staff member said this to me with a look of disdain on her face. I was at the...
At the AFL-CIO convention in early June, union leaders spoke of how the Biden administration’s 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA,...
Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice in a US District Court to dismiss a case between the NAACP and Elon Musk’s xAI based on...
For folks who might have missed it, abundance is the cool trend in politics these days. It got started with the book Abundance, which was co-authored...
The red emergency light is flashing on America’s democracy dashboard, like a damaged aircraft teetering toward a mountain. Elon Musk becoming the...
Cristosal reports that in El Salvador, tens of thousands of people have been arbitrarily detained under the state of emergency and that “civic space...
MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) just got a poke in the eye as the US Supreme Court narrowed avenues for plaintiff cases against the chemical giant...
There is a fault in contemporary left politics that is easy to miss because it looks like a virtue. The new new left is rich in moral clarity about...
Jimmy Carter’s campaign motto in 1976 was “Why Not the Best!” declaring everywhere he went: “I want to see us once again have a nation...
Understanding the MOU Most of the critical commentary on the Trump administration’s memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Iran centers on the...
Belén Fernández in the Darién Gap, 2024. Plastered onto the side of the glassed-in immigration office at the dock in Necoclí – the northwestern...
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