Chris Hedges: American Requiem
However inequitable its bias, capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse.
Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us, eating into the social fabric, rupturing social bonds, and manifesting in self-destructive pathologies.
Trump’s Barrett Nomination Another Step Toward Christian Fascism
All fascist and totalitarian movements paper over their squalid belief systems with the veneer of morality.
Letter from LA: To Rehabilitate Prisoners, Rehabilitate Jails
The author spent years on a commission designed to improve outcomes for LA Countys 17,000 prisoners but found roadblocks purposely placed in every direction.
Discredited Russian Bounty Story Exposes Media’s Role in Status Quo
The military says they can't find evidence to support it, yet the New York Times and others have not repudiated the reports or issued corrections.
Patriotic History is Fake History
Feel-good stories and the series of platitudes studied in elementary and secondary textbooks is no way to teach the young.
Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance
You can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response by ruling elites.
Plague Journal #26: What Future Grandkids Will Ask
Remembering 'The Day the Sun Didn't Rise' and other big moments from the pseudo-apocalypse.
Chris Hedges: American Bloodlands
The enraged, polarized segments of the population are rapidly consolidating as the political center disintegrates.
Plague Journal #25: Laboring for Some Hope
Unemployment is down but still high, the virus is still here but nobody seems to care and the value of unions seems lost. Time to sing!
Chris Hedges: How Corporate Tyranny Works
Those, like environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who fight the corporate control of our society on behalf of the vulnerable find the institutions of power unite to crucify them.
The Devil’s Harvest: The Search for Justice in California’s Central Valley
Journalist Jessica Garrison's new book depicts a tableau of drug trafficking, sexual violence, revenge, the bonds of kinship, the vagaries of police work and local news, and seven kinds of…
Plague Journal #22: Hot Time at the Old Conventions
Were it not for the overwhelming fact that a more-than-usual death cycle will be going on as this year’s conventions come and go, one could attach the appropriate meaning to…
View from the Ground: Ilhan, Antone and the Price of Inclusion
The liberal centrist will join you in demanding relief from the injuries of the system as he protects the very interests and policies that cause those injuries.
A Pain In the Mask: The Freedom Fighters’ Fuss
Why does a simple ordinance to protect community health make people pretend freedom is an absolute?