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Dolly isn’t dead much more than a week and the tribute songs are pouring in. Some of these are lofted by earthly voices that hymn the departed, now...
The death of Dolly Parton made front pages around the world. “Country music star’s songs spoke to millions” was the New York Times headline. The...
An estimated 82% of the world’s oceans are currently experiencing marine heat waves.” (A Surge of Marine Heat Waves Threatens to Scramble Ocean...
Today’s data center proponents argue such projects bring needed jobs and a boost to local economies. Rural America has heard confident pitches like...
September 1 is the anniversary of the start of World War Two in Europe. On that date in 1939, Nazi Germany launched an invasion of Poland from the...
Industrial union building in the 1930s has long been the lodestar for the post-New Deal labor left. If organized labor in the U.S. could go from...
Every time I write about China’s dirty energy consumption, there’s bound to be a reader or two who thinks I’m picking a fight. They say China is...
The charge that alleged antisemites represent the opposition to the current genocide in Gaza illustrates the turnabout that history has wrought. The...
Wendell Berry called out the cruelty of the masters of the modern world, especially the ways they denigrated his neighbors and devalued the land in...
The Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman continues his “series on the rise of American oligarchy” this week by discussing “the...
I recall my childhood growing up in the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el Bared, in Lebanon. We were creative in devising seasonal games that...
I was in a low-key New York bar on Seventh Avenue in the mid-80s when I became aware of the steely eyes of American playwright and actor Sam...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio's denunciations of the International Criminal Court (ICC) last July are only the latest U.S. threats against that...
US President Donald Trump on August 28 announced via social media a US agreement with Venezuela by means of which a sizable portion of Venezuela’...
When Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir proposed surrounding a prison holding Palestinian security detainees with Nile crocodiles,...
Hey, here’s a question for you: What American president ever said publicly that this country was going to “bomb the shit” out of another...
In 2024, Floridians voted, by a margin of 55.9% to 44.1%, to legalize recreational marijuana. Unfortunately, the threshold for passage of “Amendment...
When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open incitement to international...
Those who call themselves “pacifists” and have been fighting for more than four years to prevent Ukrainians from receiving weapons should now be...
Before we catch up on the game, here are the latest numbers on market capitalization and P/E ratios: It’s the fourth quarter and the game is tied,...
Iran does not need to defeat the U.S. military if prolonged conflict can turn energy disruption and war fatigue into political pressure in Washington....
Imagine a world where 9/11 didn’t happen. If the TSA had considered box cutters a dangerous weapon and the hijackers never got them on the plane. If...
When was the last time you watched a porn flick? It doesn’t matter whether you are a woman or man, whether straight or gay, whether you watched it...
Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General...
The $40 trillion debt point naturally prompted much griping among pundits, many of whom see their job as promoting hysteria in order to justify cuts...
This is a summer of extreme heat that refuses to end. Record temperatures have fallen one after another across Germany, Czechia, Poland, Denmark,...
All recent activity affecting ‘public lands’ today seeks to stop ecological stewardship and promote mercantile relationships. At the core of...
Low-wage U.S. workers have faced multiple rising threats to their economic and personal security over the past year. Aggressive ICE actions have...
Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s president in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US....
Back in March, when the Trump administration and the Israeli government initiated their attack on Iran, it didn’t take a prophet to foresee the...
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According to a report from the Prison Policy Initiative, U.S. taxpayers and families of system-involved people pay at least $445 billion every year to...
Restricting access to social media platforms to children of a certain age has become something of a spreading mania. This prohibitionist urge has...
The lesson of the U.S. defeat in the Iran War is that there’ll be no U.S. war on China over Taiwan and Russia will win, on its own terms, in...
The arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) for a ‘leisure trip’ in Thailand before returning to its campaign of destruction against the...
The man who gave us the war in Iran, mass deportation, murders on the high seas, inflation, a trade war with our closest ally, measles, explosive...
Simon Bolivar, the great liberator of South America, famously observed, “The United States appear(s) to be destined by Providence to plague America...
There is a very real and increasingly noisy meeting point between parts of the American MAGA right, several European far-right parties, and positions...
Esmaeil Baqaei, the spokesperson for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, recently warned of the increasing environmental damage caused by the U.S. war, drawing...
Settler colonialism is a fairly common phenomenon, both ancient and modern, as the unhappy history of the indigenous people of Palestine testifies....
Global warming is becoming a self-advertised nuisance with the recent Nepal disaster bringing renewed attention: Is global warming fueled by fossil...
At roughly 8:30 AM on 26 August 2026, a wall of water, mud, ice, and massive boulders roared down the Lhende Khola into the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli...
As his superyacht Boardwalk docked in Venice as part of the “Freedom 250 Coastal Diplomacy Italy initiative” in July, billionaire US Ambassador...
When monsters square off, they are quick to showcase their asymmetrical superpowers. Take Godzilla, for instance. Thanks to U.S. atomic testing in the...
Although there are signs that the labor market is weakening, we continue to be in a period of low unemployment. While the national unemployment rate...
Across New York, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, a familiar fight is playing out inside the Democratic Party. Centrist stalwarts and...
While many mainstream commentators blanch at the characterization of the United States as an empire, the hard data show that it is today possible to...
New York State Police in riot gear retake control after the four-day Attica prison uprising in New York, September 1971, which left 43 dead. Wikimedia...
Image by Hédi Benyounes. I was incarcerated by the Florida Department of Corrections on a ten-year sentence. When my custody status finally dropped...
Hey, I’ve been 80 for almost two weeks now. Where’s the Jell-O? Where’s the yeast? Where’s the pitchfork? And I know by now you’re asking:...
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