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As Israel’s war on Gaza persisted, the explanations often echoed the post-9/11 rationales for the “war on terror”
A few days before the end of 2024, the independent magazine 972 reported that “Israeli army forces stormed the Kamal Adwan Hospital compound in...
When news broke over the weekend that President Biden just approved an $8 billion deal for shipping weapons to Israel, a nameless...
While Biden refused to acknowledge the ethnic cleansing and mass murder that he kept making possible with bombs and political support for...
On the last day of 2024, the deputy general counsel for the House of Representatives formally accepted the delivery of a civil summons for two...
This week, the New York Times reported that the U.S. government made war in Afghanistan while helping to “recruit, train and pay for lawless bands...
Timing is crucial in media and politics—and never more so than when war is at stake. It’s completely unsatisfactory for journalists to toe the war...
To explore possibilities for how that might change will require a candid assessment of how that image came into focus in the 21st century.
Before and after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February 2022, Biden showed a distinct lack of interest in actual diplomacy to prevent the...
Whether heralded or reviled, Biden’s supposed restraint during the Ukraine war has steadily faded, with more and more dangerous escalation in its...
If Emanuel ends up in the top DNC spot, the message will be that wealthy power brokers have fully recaptured the party.
When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in a...
This deeply perilous time requires realism—but not fatalism. In the worst of times, solidarity is most needed.
Rather than being for personal absolution, voting is a tool in the political toolbox—if the goal is to avert the worst and improve the chances for...
While the name of the next president is unknown, some outcomes of the election can be foreseen. For instance: Both Donald Trump and Kamala Harris...
A Trump presidency will push progressives back on our heels, in a dire defensive position as we fight to protect rights and programs won during...
The policy that Harris has defended for the war on Gaza is despicable, yet she is the only candidate who can spare us from another Trump...
Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons. While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel...
As each day brings escalation toward a global nuclear inferno, standard-issue legislators on both sides of the aisle keep boosting the Pentagon...
If a nuclear war happens, of course we won’t be around for any retrospective analysis. Or regrets. So, candid introspection is in a category of now...
Kamala Harris won the debate. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page — “Harris Puts Trump on Defensive in Fierce Debate...
Kamala Harris won the debate. People being bombed in Gaza did not. The banner headline across the top of the New York Times home page -- “Harris...
As the Gaza war enters its 12th month with no end in sight, the ongoing horrors continue to be normalized in U.S. media and politics. The process...
By Jonathan Power Two mistakes, committed on President Barack Obama’s watch, were the triggers for the end of the long post-Cold War period of good...
One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the...
One evening in early September 1964, a frightening commercial jolted 50 million Americans who were partway through watching “Monday Night at the...
When Harris delivered her acceptance speech in Chicago, it did not include the words “atomic” or “nuclear” at all.
With nearly 18 million students on U.S. college campuses this fall, defenders of the war on Gaza don’t want to hear any backtalk. Silence is...
Silence is complicity, and that’s the way Israel’s allies like it.
Time is running out for Kamala Harris to distance herself from U.S. policies that enable Israel to continue with mass murder and genocide in Gaza....
In CNN interview, the Democratic nominee stuck to echoing Biden’s rhetoric—calling for a ceasefire while dodging the reality that the U.S....
A speech that denied the suffering of Palestinians was a journey into an alternative universe of political guile from a president who just six days...
An observation from George Orwell — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — is...
As a pivotal election neared, a candidate had to decide whether to keep supporting an unpopular war or speak out for a meaningful change. Humphrey...
Soon after the Gaza war began 10 months ago, a prominent newspaper columnist denounced Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., under a headline declaring that...
People like Kansas City Star editorial board member Melinda Henneberger are as cowardly as they are common.
Obsequious loyalty, top-down decision-making, and an obsession with fundraising have made the party less responsible to its rank and file,...
The Biden campaign drove the Democratic Party into a ditch and speculation is rampant about grim prospects for the election. But little scrutiny...
Trump is now stronger than ever and everything in our power must be done to prevent his reelection.