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Edward Curtin Years ago when I was twenty-seven years-old and my father fifty-eight, we wandered around an off-beat section of a small New England town. There was a section where…
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Starve, Strangle, Invade: How Washington’s Siege of Cuba Is Pushing a Nation to the Brink
Medea Benjamin warns that a decades-long economic war against Cuba has escalated into what she calls a “medieval siege,” as fuel shortages cripple hospitals, food systems and daily life while…
The AI Cartel: How Washington Is Building a Surveillance State Without Calling It One
A new executive order claims it is not creating an AI licensing regime. Jeffrey Wernick argues that’s precisely what makes it so dangerous. Jeffrey Wernick The most effective systems of…
Tyranny or Revolution
We face a choice. Tyranny or revolution. Chris Hedges MEXICO CITY — There are two ways to confront global capitalism. There are mass movements, especially strikes, which disrupt commerce and…
Israel’s LGBTQ+ Safe Haven Has a Catch: Inform, Comply, or Remain in Limbo
Joshua Scheer Based on reporting by Theia Chatelle at The Intercept, the story of Kareem exposes the contradiction at the heart of Israel’s claim to be a safe haven for…
Trump Finally Admits Aloud: “We Shouldn’t Have Been in Iran”
Joshua Scheer Donald Trump may have delivered the most honest assessment of the Iran War yet — entirely by accident. In an interview conducted not by a journalist but by…
Balancing Act at the New York Times: Nicholas Kristof Wrote About Israel’s Sexual Torture of Prisoners, the Next Day Isabel Kershner Penned More Unverified Rape Allegations Against Hamas
Robin Andersen The New York Times attempted to ‘balance’ Nicholas Kristof’s documentation of the systematic rape of Palestinians by Israeli forces with yet another unverified rape ‘investigation’ claiming that Hamas…
California Democrats Keep Selling “Medicare for All” — While Protecting the System That Profits From Sickness
Joshua Scheer For nearly a decade, California Democrats have treated single-payer health care like a campaign hymn: sing it loudly during elections, bury it quietly once the donors call. Every…
Is Zohran Mamdani the Future of American Politics? Affordability, Socialism and the Revolt Against the Democratic Establishment
As millions of Americans struggle with soaring rents, crushing childcare costs, stagnant wages and a political system increasingly captured by wealth, a new political force has emerged from New York…
The Rise of the Global South
The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States, but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle…
“Our Hands Are Dirty”: Jeffrey Wernick on America’s Founding Principles, Foreign Entanglements and the Moral Cost of Empire
Invoking George Washington, John Quincy Adams and the American abolitionist tradition, Jeffrey Wernick argues that permanent foreign attachments and endless war have pushed the United States far from the values…
“Israel First”: Hezbollah Leader Says Trump Turned America Into a Joke
Joshua Scheer As Washington and Tel Aviv escalate pressure on Lebanon, a senior Hezbollah official is warning that the next phase of the conflict may not be fought only with…
Commencement 2026: Sweet Sorrow and the Privilege of Letting Go
Austin Sarat ScheerPost My college, Amherst College, held its Commencement on Saturday, May 23. Like similar events across the country, our ceremony marks a new beginning for the graduates. But…
Claire Valdez: Can Democrats Win the Working Class?
Joshua Scheer As economic desperation deepens and both major parties continue to hemorrhage working-class trust, conversations once dismissed as fringe are moving back toward the political center. In this wide-ranging…
Barbarism With Better Software: Pope Leo Warns of the AI Future
Joshua Scheer Pope Leo XIV is warning that artificial intelligence, if left in the hands of profit-hungry corporations and unaccountable tech oligarchs, could unleash a “social calamity” by replacing human…