Trump Missing His Chance to Make History in Moscow
Edward Lozansky on the snubbing by European leaders, along with the U.S. president, of Moscow’s May 9 celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany.
Backlash to Transgender Health Care Isn’t New − but the Faulty Science Used to Justify It Has Changed to Meet the Times
Editors Note: Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility. Presently, transgender rights are under political attack throughout the United States with hundreds of anti-trans bills in the legislative process. We…
Scott Ritter: The Murder of Others
The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.
Ten Holocaust Survivors Condemn Israel’s Gaza Genocide
Holocaust survivors say using the Holocaust to justify genocide in Gaza and repress student protest on college campuses is a complete insult to the Holocaust's memory.
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.
Peter Jan Honigsberg: The Stain on America’s Soul That Will Not Wash Away
Although the extent of our lawless detention program in Guantanamo Bay is something most of us know little about, it defines us all.