Given that Donald Trump conceives of the presidency as a casino—why else would he be trying to makeover the White House to look like the Bellagio?—it ...
Just over a month has passed since the first missiles of Operation Epic Fury killed, on the very first day, Supreme Leader ...
It seems an opportune time to scrutinize how it has come to pass that the U.S. has become a menace to others as well as to itself. Remembering its early vision of being a peaceful democracy that ...
The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by Congress” is how Michael Waldman, CEO of the Brennan Center for Justice, describes the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. The former ...
In late March, I sat in the gallery of the Supreme Court for the first time in my life. Throughout my 30 years of grassroots anti-poverty work, I’ve joined countless protests and vigils outside the ...
The international liberal commentariat is celebrating again. Viktor Orbán, the long-reigning right-wing strongman of Hungary, has been defeated in the ...
Note: This opinion piece reflects my personal views and not those of any group with which I am affiliated. In George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Oceania is a totalitarian society ...
The collapse of the U.S.-Iran talks in Islamabad this week, followed swiftly by Washington’s announcement of a maritime blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, has been widely framed as a return to the ...
To make Steal This Story, Please! Co-directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin spent about three years wearing out the proverbial shoe leather tailing Amy Goodman, that journalistic scourge of the status quo ...
Amidst Donald Trump’s wild Middle East War declarations, the tech billionaire push to nuclear reactor suicide has escalated with the shock relicensing of California’s two nuclear power plants at ...
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies…a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money ...
I was born in the American South in 1942 “in the land of the free and the home of the brave” (as the final stanza of the national anthem puts it). Francis Scott Key wrote those words in 1814. However, ...