Humans’ Predicament in 3 Phrases
Robert Jensen With age, I’ve become more aware of the world’s complexity but also better equipped to come to simple, albeit painful, conclusions. Everyone understands (or should understand) that our…
The Sovereign Reset: Escaping the Interest Trap with Greenbacks
Ellen Brown In August 2026, the U.S. debt reached a gravity-defying $40 trillion, with an estimated fiscal year 2026 deficit of $2.1 trillion. Interest on the debt hit a record…
Too L.A.: Letters Never Sent (But Some Were) by Eve Babitz
A Review By STEVE WASSERMAN Last things first: Eve Babitz is a major minor L.A. writer who died five years ago at age 78. She spent nearly a quarter-century as…
Thanks to Trump, College and University Presidents Have Accrued Even More Power on Their Campuses
Austin Sarat ScheerPost While the Trump Administration has suffered numerous defeats in its effort to punish America’s leading universities, it has succeeded in many ways in changing the prevailing culture…
The Next Election May Be Our Last
Chris Hedges ScheerPost Donald Trump is determined to subvert the midterms. All that can save us, if he succeeds, is a national strike. The Trump White House has put into…
The Danger Of Food Industry Deregulation Today
The ghost of Upton Sinclair. Rob Warzyniak, People’s World. When The Jungle was published in 1906, writer and journalist Upton Sinclair hoped his novel would advance socialism by exposing the…
John Mearsheimer and Chris Hedges: Trump’s Economic War on Iran Is a Desperate ‘Hail Mary’
With its military options exhausted and China, Russia and key regional powers refusing to isolate Tehran, Washington is flailing in a war it cannot win. The Iran War Is the…
Chris Hedges Answers His Readers: Resistance In An Age of Collapse
“I won’t stop resisting. you can’t use the word ‘hope’ if you don’t resist.” Joshua Scheer In this wide-ranging Q&A, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges answers questions directly from his…
Break on Through to the Other Side: How to Reach the Working Class—and How Not To
Les Leopold Substack The Democratic Party and the Democratic Socialists of America share a problem. As organizations largely run by and involved with college-educated voters, they are physically and psychically…
Hoping For Smooth Sailing With The Sea Gulls And Thoreau
Edward Curtin Here where I sit once again looking easterly to the vast sea, the wind and the waves and winding vistas along the north Atlantic coast drown out trivial…
Supreme Court Dodges the Real Issues In Case About Mail-In Ballots
Austin Sarat ScheerPost Writing about the Supreme Court in 1961, the famous law professor Alexander Bickel praised what hecalled “the passive virtues.” As he explained, “The jurisprudence of the Court…
How the Media Sells Genocide
Western media, by employing double standards, censorship, deceptive language, amplifying Israeli lies and dehumanizing Palestinians, facilitates the genocide in Gaza. Chris Hedges ScheerPost The Western media manufactures consent for genocide.…
How Universities Should Respond To Revelations That The Trump Administration’s Antisemitism Charges Were a Sham
Austin Sarat ScheerPost At the start of his second term, President Trump opened fire on some of America’s most prestigious universities. His administration cut off or threatened to cut off…
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 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…