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For years, popular leftist political commentator and streamer Ian Kochinsky, better known online as Vaush, has been one of the only voices on the left...
Away from the heat, there must be some winds that wish to cool the earth. Some that carry the scent of wet stone and violet. Some that reach the Welsh...
Recently, while listening to an NPR interview with Cuban-American musician Arturo Sandoval, I was reminded of the late political scientist Michael...
In December 2025, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Palm Beach, Florida, with evangelical Christian Zionist leaders and university presidents....
Amidst the ICE terror that descended on Minnesota this past winter, tens of thousands of everyday people packed into community centers for legal...
A system with a small number of massive corporate conglomerates under which 99.9% of us have no substantive power whatsoever can never be one...
British Columbia, Canada is my home and once again, it’s burning. More than 100 fires were burning across the province as B.C. declared a state of...
The number of Americans who file for bankruptcy is growing. More than 500,000 people took this step in 2025, nearly 50% more than in 2022. And the...
President Donald Trump’s tariff announcements no longer cause the market gyrations that they did in 2025. But their sticker shock for American...
The oldest known engravings consist of zigzag patterns and parallel lines, carved into freshwater mussel shells at Trinil on the island of Java,...
“President Donald Trump’s decision to scale back joint military exercises with South Korea,” Matthew Lee and Ben Finley write for the Associated...
The latest incidents of Israeli settler violence in the villages of Qusra and Kour, located in the northern occupied West Bank, have again caught...
In 1799, Francisco de Goya published Los Caprichos. Among his engravings was one destined to stand the test of time: a man sleeps, leaning over a...
The defining feature of Western representative democracy today is that the individuals we elect don’t represent anything other than monied interests...
The U.S. is witnessing a revival of “socialism.” A century ago, during the 1910s-1920s, more than 1,000 socialists were elected to public office,...
One of the greatest dogmas of the recent past is rapidly losing its validity: the mechanical “coding craze” that converted every educational...
In 1930, Henry Miller arrived in Paris with only a razor, toothbrush, pen, notebook and walking stick to his name. He set up shop on the Villa Seurat,...
Javier Milei’s government recently suffered a double defeat. The first occurred in the streets, with massive protests against his plan to liberalize...
In geopolitics, words do matter, and sometimes a deletion says a lot more than a thousand-page defense white paper. The Pentagon’s recent move to...
Writer and actress Liza Jessie Peterson says there was no better location than the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison, to...
Back in February, before Trump and Netanyahu attacked Iran, the interest rate on 10-year Treasury bonds was around 4.0%. It’s now hovering near...
On 3 January 2026, the United States launched a military operation against Venezuela, resulting in the capture and detention of President Nicolás...
Hey, Donald Trump couldn’t have made it clearer that he wanted to go to war with Iran, could he? You would think that even he wouldn’t have been...
My old pal, the novelist and Beckett scholar Raymond Federman, had an experience when he was young that became the central meaning of his life. He was...
Drowning in my usual sea of online media saturation, I recently spotted an article in The Boston Globe that validated a long but increasingly less...
When ministers from seven key OPEC plus countries concluded their virtual deliberations on August 2, 2026, and announced a scheduled production...
It was on August 14, 1935 that President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act. The historic law was the brainchild of Labor...
We’ve been hearing a lot of panicky warnings lately after Democratic primary voters chose socialists and other leftists instead of “moderates”...
No one evinced surprise on July 30 when Israel bombed medical warehouses in Gaza. In fact, this crime elicited barely a ho-hum from any media other...
No one is likely to be surprised to learn that large numbers of political left-wingers have been “Bohemians,” by any definition of the word. Free...
This week marks the beginning of Brazil’s presidential campaign, with the two front-runners—current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and...
Science, public opinion, and the political economy of predator control On August 19, the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will meet to decide the...
If Abelardo de la Espriella's first four days are any indication of what his entire term will be like, we are in for some very dark comedy over the...
“Genocide deniers” have been social pariahs since World War II, and rightfully so. The term was first used to describe some fringe political...
To House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer—Your responses on July 1, 2026 on the reporting of the $2.2...
Why Taming the Power of Capital is Needed for Environmental Resolution In 2017 I wrote an article arguing that neoliberal climate policies were wholly...
I write in remembrance of Ward Churchill, who died on August 11, 2026. I was a member of Ward’s defense team, headed by the civil rights attorney...
Musk symbolises a no-holds-barred, crisis-prone, ultra-exploitative racial capitalism whose ideology fuses corporate-dominated economic libertarianism...
I am sickened and deeply saddened by the death of Jason Arday. He was only 41, a young man whose life was cut short following a period of intense...
Nothing inspires confidence in the silliness of the human species than its efforts to understand the workings of others. This, at least, makes an...
On July 30, 2026, enormous crowds crossed from Morocco into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta. Within hours, Spanish authorities estimated that...
Ward Churchill died last week at the age of 79. The following is an interview I conducted with Ward in 2014, nine years after he was the talk of Fox...
There is now a bipartisan consensus that Social Security faces a serious crisis, and something has to be done. That “something” almost always...
Amerika’s saga from our genocidal inception to Hiroshima & Nagasaki to our carpet-bombing of whatever poor dark folks we choose as recipients today...
Ward Churchill died last week at the age of 79. The following is an interview I conducted with Ward in 2014, nine years after he was the talk of Fox...
Last fall, on September 16, 2025, Devion Canty was forced to withdraw from Texas State University, just two weeks into his first semester in college....
With the western world’s attention having turned almost completely away from Occupied Palestine this summer, Israeli armed forces and settler shock...
For more than six decades, the United States has attempted to make the Cuban people pay for their decision to pursue an independent, socialist path....
The policy brief, “Make Housing More Affordable,” part of CEPR’s Majority Agenda, points out that “federal housing policy directs too much...
Immigrants have been horribly mischaracterized by shameful deceiving politicians looking for cheap political gains, an American tragedy happening...
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