In his magnificent Age of Extremes, the late historian Eric Hobsbawm warned that one of the defining characteristics of the late twentieth century was that men and women increasingly lived in a “sort ...

Last Friday, the Central Intelligence Agency released 69 presidential intelligence reports that contained no major new revelations and underplayed the intelligence failure that permitted the terrorist ...

On  the 25th anniversary of the horrendous 9/11 terrorist attacks, a grateful nation is celebrating the bravery of the EMTs, emergency medical technicians ...

To examine the unyielding multi-billionaire dollar shield that the United States provides Israel is to confront the coarse mechanics of modern empire.

If you’re looking to buy a new car today, it will cost on average just under $50,000. That’s a 145 percent increase from $20,360, the average price in ...

They say speak no ill of the dead. BUT…you still should be able to talk about the Party. This clip is making the rounds online. I never met David Cobb and ...

Senator Bernie Sanders announced legislation September 3 to ban superintelligent AI and pause AI development. This is the most serious effort so far to ...

On September 4, Judge William Sullivan, of Massachusetts's Plymouth County Superior Court, declared a mistrial in the case of Commonwealth v. Lindsey ...

In his rambling and incoherent remarks for nearly two hours over two nights before a knee-jerk crowd in Dallas last week, Trump provided ample evidence ...

MIRI (the nonprofit Machine Intelligence Research Institute) warns that on the current AI trajectory, “the expected outcome is human extinction,” and ...

Elliot Sperber is a writer, attorney, and adjunct professor. He lives in New York City and can be reached at [email protected] and on twitter @elliot_sperber ...

There is a great scene in the movie The Big Short, where the Steve Carell character is talking with a stripper who owns five ...