Chris Hedges: The Rule of Idiots
In the last days of all empires the idiots take over. They mirror the collective stupidity of a civilization that has detached itself from reality.
Patrick Lawrence: The White House as Playpen
It is time, plain and simple, to give up the thought that anything good is to come out of Trump’s next three and a half years.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Useful Idiots
A bankrupt liberal class, by signing on for the Zionist witch hunt against supposed antisemites and refusing to condemn Israel for its genocide, provided the bullets to its executioners.
How to Fight Trump Without Caving to Corporatists
Campaigns and candidates should be subordinated to progressive social movements, not the other way around. That's how we win. Change doesn't come from the top.
Increased Pass-Through Business Tax Break Would Worsen Inequality Without Boosting Growth
The House plan would disproportionately benefit top earners and sacrifice significant federal revenue — without increasing GDP.
Trump’s Break with Israel: Genuine Shift or Political Theater?
Has Trump finally put America First—or is this just another pro-Israel rerun in disguise?
Voters Strongly Support Legal Status for Undocumented Immigrants
Why Aren’t the Democrats Pushing it?
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 4: Wanderers and Seekers
Editor’s note: Earlier versions of this story reported Germany’s shock when Friedrich Merz initially failed to win sufficient Bundestag votes to assume office. After intense negotiations, he won back the…
What’s Preventing a United Front Against the Trump Regime?
By Norman Solomon / TomDispatch America desperately needs a united front to restrain the wrecking ball of the Trump regime. While outraged opposition has been visible and vocal, it remains…
Patrick Lawrence: Germany in Crisis Part 3: A Culture of Submission
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost This is the third of four reports on Germany in crisis. Part 1 of this series is here and Part 2 here. BERLIN—…
Vijay Prashad: Historic 1955 Anti-Colonial Bandung Conference Inspired New Era in Global South
The 1955 Bandung Conference announced the arrival on the world stage of peoples from the Global South, and it marked the birth of what would later become the Non-Aligned Movement…
Alfred McCoy: Fortress America
Trump’s Tricontinental Vision for a New World Order.
Only 14 Senators Join Sanders Bid to Block Arms to Israel as Gaza Deaths Top 50K
The resolutions failed by a larger margin than in similar votes in November, with several Democrats flipping to “no.”
Patrick Lawrence: American Freefall
The extent to which the U.S. has embarked on a departure from reality is only a question for empires in their waning decades.