Patrick Lawrence: The Wreckage Biden Leaves
A lightweight when it came time to prove himself as a statesman and a leader, the White House has simply defeated him.
Reagan’s Treason, Two Bushes and the $23 Million Payoff
By Greg Palast / CounterPunch Last week, a Texas pol, Ben Barnes, confessed that he was personally involved—and therefore an eyewitness to–high treason: The Ronald Reagan campaign’s successful secret deal…
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Mikhail Gorbachev’s Legacy Was Squandered. Now We’re All Paying the Price.
Katrina vanden Heuvel, editorial director and publisher of The Nation, remembers the Russian leader—whom she called a friend—as a committed pro-peace thinker, on this week’s “Scheer Intelligence."
Matt Taibbi: John Podhoretz, You Suck
Neoconservatives think they've been vindicated by Ukraine, and their new Democratic allies agree. On America's most improbable and undeserved political comeback
‘The Color of Law’
By H. Patricia Hynes Editor’s note: This column appeared first on the Op-Ed page of the Greenfield Recorder. For many years, I worked in Boston public housing with teams of…
We Should All Be Afraid of the New Cold War
2021 looks a lot like 1981—and that should scare us.