Clay Tweel: Death by UFO at Heaven’s Gate
What do we mean by religion? Who gets the authority? Who defines it? Isn't all religion, in some sense, kooky, cultish, and so forth?
The ‘Moderate’ Rot at the Top of the Democratic Party
Joe Biden’s choices to run the Office of Management and Budget and the State Department personify everything that's wrong with the party.
Joe Biden Must Learn from America’s Failed Wars
Have any of our leaders really come to grips with the striking American ability in the last 60 years to get into but not out of wars?
‘Out of Mesopotamia’ Is a Great War Novel
Iranian-American author captures how combat has a Peter Pan quality, allowing fighters, as well as war correspondents, to escape from the drudgery of daily life and never grow up.
Neoliberal Champion Larry Summers Opens Mouth, Inserts Both Feet
Ex-treasury secretary under Clinton offers important thoughts on the negative consequences of aid to the less fortunate.
America’s Christmas Gift to Africa? War Crimes
Considering a US AFRICOM Angle to Tigray, Ethiopia, and Uncle Sam’s role on Africa’s Horn.
What If Trump Had Launched a Global War on Covid-19?
Imagine how differently history might have turned out if Donald J. Trump and George W. Bush had had opposite reactions.
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Chris Hedges: The Great Delusion
The real lesson we should learn from the rise of a demagogue such as Trump and a pandemic that our for-profit health care industry proved unable to contain is that…
The U.K.’s New COVID-19 Strain and Boris Johnson’s Bloody Blunders
The British prime minister’s pre-Christmas announcement that a new, highly contagious strain of the coronavirus is ripping through England is as shocking as it is maddening.
France Cynically Hides Its Islamophobia Behind ‘Laïcité’
President Emmanuel Macron is the latest in a long line of French leaders to use the revolutionary principle to justify discrimination against Muslims.
Matt Tyrnauer: How Reagan Paved the Way for Trump
The director of the devastating Showtime documentary blockbuster “The Reagans” reveals how Donald Trump was the logical heir to the Reagan Revolution beginning with his plagiarism of the Gipper’s “Make…
Can We Finally Stop Marching to Disaster?
It’s almost twenty years since 9/11, why is it still all war, all the time?
White Supremacy Is Only Plausible Explanation for 2020 Election Results
Voter polling on racism and Black Lives Matter show it was the biggest factor in Republican victories across the country.
FDR Knew Exactly How to Solve Today’s Unemployment Crisis
A self-funding national infrastructure bank modeled on the “American System” of Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt would help solve not one but two of the country’s biggest…