My Ayn Rand Phase: The Dangers of ‘Dead Dogma’
Robert Jensen ScheerPost Book Excerpt for This I Don’t Believe: A Fulfilling Life without Meaning John Stuart Mill long ago warned that when we are so certain of the truth…
The Mecca Security Pact Is Not About Iran
Shahram Akbarzadeh Informed Comment On August 7, Saudi Arabia, Türkiye and Pakistan signed a pact in Mecca. The joint statement declared an attack on one as an attack on all.…
Whistleblower: Politics drove Trump Admin. University “Antisemitism” Inquiries
Chris Walker Truthout This article was originally published by Truthout For some of the inquiries, “there was little to no factual predicate justifying opening them,” the complaint states. A whistleblower…
How Finland Destroyed Itself For NATO
Nate Bear Do Not Panic Finland, often known as the happiest country in the world, now has the highest unemployment rate in Europe, demand for food aid has exploded by…
The Benefit of Not Reading
Edward Curtin “For my sister Rita, an artist who didn’t imitate and who died on this day long ago, trying.” It is a commonplace that a steady diet of the…
Just Days After Being Sworn In as Attorney General, Todd Blanche Shows Why He Is Unfit for That Office
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Remember Bill Clinton’s famous verbal footwork during the investigation of his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky? When asked about whether he lied when he told…
L.A.’s Fashion District Feels Like a Ghost Town a Year After the Raids
Regino Tirado sorts through merchandise outside his store in the Stanford Wholesale Mart. Photos by Jeremy Lindenfeld for Capital & Main. “For Lease” signs dot once-busy storefronts, where immigration raids…
From Black Power To Hip Hop: The Evolution Of Mopreme Shakur
Mansa Musa TRNN How are hip hop and Black Liberation connected? In this special Black August edition of Rattling the Bars, former political prisoner and Black Panther Mansa Musa sits…
The Student Movement For Palestine Is Not Going Away, But It Is Adapting To A New Political Reality
Maximillian Alvarez TRNN In 2024, at the height of Israel’s US-backed genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, one of the most widespread waves of college campus protests since the Vietnam War…
The Ultra- Rich Are Not Leaving Manhattan
Wealth flight is a Mirage. There are More Billionaires and Multi-Millionaires than ever before Blake Fleetwood ScheerPost Despite the hyperbolic predictions, there has been very little wealth flight under Mayor…
The Dead
The last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory. Chris Hedges ScheerPost MECHANIC FALLS, Maine — I am standing in Maple Grove Cemetery in Mechanic Falls,…
Iran Eliminates US Strategic Targets As Yemen’s Shock Offensive Dismantles Israeli Scheme
Robert Inlakesh MintPress News Yemen’s Ansarallah launches deadly precision strikes on Saudi Arabia’s proxy forces as the blockade on Saudi Ports tightens the noose on an already suffering global oil…
Neoliberal Policy Hollowed Out Universities. Now They Are Collapsing
By Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt This article was originally published by Truthout Administrators treat their universities like businesses — that’s why they’re failing. If education is indeed the great vehicle of social…
Who Owns You in the Age of AI?
Coase, Property Rights, and the AI Debate Everyone Is Having Backwards Jeffrey Wernick The AI debate has settled into two camps. One says the technology is too dangerous to distribute,…
‘I Couldn’t Watch My Children Cry From Hunger’: Inside The ‘Displacement Economy’ Gazans Built To Survive The Genocide
In Gaza’s displacement camps, survival has bred a new economy: a gym owner forges weights from empty cans, a supermarket owner turns baker, a housewife becomes a street vendor —…