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Norman Solomon

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Melvin Goodman

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Henry Giroux

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Daniel Warner

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Jacob Silverman

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Aaron Goings

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David Schultz

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Melvin Goodman

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Maha Nassar

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Ross Mackay

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Peter Bach

Banking on Racism? The Blue Jean “War” is Just Beginning

One of the oldest maxims in advertising is that sex “sells.” But it turns out that race – and racial controversy – “sells,” too. Witness...

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A Black Hole in Collective Memory: China and WWII

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Dean Baker

Chicago On Guard: Trump’s Looming Fascist Invasion

I was talking to a journalist the other day and we were both stumped on what formal legal justification, if any, the demented fascist leader Trump...

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Paul Street

Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom

Cancel culture—political correctness amped up on steroids, the self-righteousness of a narcissistic age, and a mass-marketed pseudo-morality that...

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John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead

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Nick Allison

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Binoy Kampmark

The False “Good Fire” Paradigm

The North Rim of the Grand Canyon forest stands are dominated by ponderosa pine, which tends to have a low-severity/high-frequency fire regime....

wednesday 1

George Wuerthner

The Stockholm Accord and the Future of Sino-American Trade

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Imran Khalid

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wednesday 1

Andrea Mazzarino

Remembering the FBI’s Deceit and John Bolton’s Dangerous Career

The mainstream media are describing John Bolton as an experienced diplomat and a serious analyst. He was neither. Many members of the media are...

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Melvin Goodman

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Todd Miller

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Thomas Knapp

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Binoy Kampmark

How Indigenous Jarawara Women Use Snuff to Shape Movement, Meaning, and Daily Life

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Fabiana Maizza

A.I. and I-Thou

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Andrew Moss

Trump’s Federal Policing Makes Us Less Safe

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26.08.2025 2

Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler

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26.08.2025 1

Helen Flannery

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26.08.2025 1

Dean Baker

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26.08.2025 2

Ramzy Baroud

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26.08.2025 2

Pete Tucker

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans

With the Trump administration rolling back essential health insurance protections and rejecting a national, single-payer health insurance program,...

26.08.2025 1

F. Douglas Stephenson

An Ode to Those Trapped Under the Rubble

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Elizabeth West

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Dean Baker

Making it Official: Famine Strikes Gaza City

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25.08.2025 1

Binoy Kampmark

Looking Back at the Positions on South African Apartheid Taken by Ambitious Democrats

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John P. Ruehl

Honeymoon Over: Trump Divorces India

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A Paean to Bud Lilly, a Trout’s Best Friend

A paean is “a fervent expression of joy or praise.” When it comes to the long and ongoing struggle to preserve the incredible legacy of Montana’s...

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George Ochenski

Interest rates and the Federal Reserve

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Edgar Kaskla

The War on Drugs as Imperial War

In the last dozen or so years of the twentieth century, the United States sent US military forces to Peru, Colombia, and Panama in the name of a...

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Ron Jacobs

The German Question and Europe’s Future

Wolfgang Streeck, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, is in the front ranks of Europe’s social...

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The Low-Wage 100

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Sarah Anderson

Alliance for the Wild Rockies Files Lawsuit to Stop Massive Clearcutting Project in Bull Trout Critical Habitat Watershed

Bull trout lost approximately 60 percent of their historic range before they were even listed as ‘threatened’ on the Endangered Species List in...

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Antarctica on Alert!

Robert Hunziker

The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

Norman Solomon

Russia’s Foreign Minister Cites NATO Expansion as Cause of Ukraine War

Melvin Goodman

Gaza Diary: Can You Imagine?

Jeffrey St. Clair

Domestic Terrorism and Spectacularized Violence in Trump’s Warfare State

Henry Giroux

Sergei Lavrov’s Sweatshirt and Putin/Trump’s Nostalgic Imaginations

Daniel Warner

Why Was The Dalai Lama At Jeffrey Epstein’s House?

Jacob Silverman

Essentials for Fighting ICE

Marc Delucchi - Sophie Shepherd

America’s Far Right and the Further Right: the Klan and a Coup in 1920s Lumber Country

Aaron Goings

The Business of Schools is Business

David Schultz

The NYT’s David Sanger Foolishly Likens Trump to Teddy Roosevelt

Melvin Goodman

Israel’s Killing of Journalists Follows a Pattern of Silencing Palestinian Media That Stretches Back to 1967

Maha Nassar

Gaza and the CBC: The Public Broadcaster Betrays Its Mandate

Ross Mackay

Summer Report Card

Peter Bach

Banking on Racism? The Blue Jean “War” is Just Beginning

Stewart Lawrence

A Black Hole in Collective Memory: China and WWII

Biljana Vankovska

Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland

Lorenzo Hofstetter

The Progressive Case for Tariffs

Sara Steffens

Building Trump’s Personal Army

Dave Lindorff

MAGA 2.0: Making China Great Again

Dean Baker

Chicago On Guard: Trump’s Looming Fascist Invasion

Paul Street

Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom

John W. Whitehead – Nisha Whitehead

Beside the Golden Door

Nick Allison

What Australia Should do with US Submarines

Binoy Kampmark

The False “Good Fire” Paradigm

George Wuerthner

The Stockholm Accord and the Future of Sino-American Trade

Imran Khalid

How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

Andrea Mazzarino

Remembering the FBI’s Deceit and John Bolton’s Dangerous Career

Melvin Goodman

Peacemaking in the Borderlands: A Reflection on the Farce of “Border Security”

Todd Miller

Cracker Barrel vs. the Cracked Brain, Round Two

Thomas Knapp

Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action and Anti-Terrorism Laws

Binoy Kampmark

How Indigenous Jarawara Women Use Snuff to Shape Movement, Meaning, and Daily Life

Fabiana Maizza

A.I. and I-Thou

Andrew Moss

Trump’s Federal Policing Makes Us Less Safe

Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler

Donor-Advised Funds: a Powerful Tool for Political Engagement

Helen Flannery

Putting Universal Medicare Front and Center

Dean Baker

The War on Truth: Why Palestinian Journalists Are Being Systematically Erased

Ramzy Baroud

In DC’s Hour of Need, the Post Opinion Page Veers Right and Crumbles

Pete Tucker

Trump Junk: Won’t Enforce Rules for Short-Term Junk Health Insurance Plans