Al Polk landed a job at a cutting-tool plant in his early 20s and then promptly started paying Social Security taxes—every week, 12 months a year, without ...

For nearly eight decades, the U.S. dollar has occupied a place in the global order that no other currency has matched. It is the world’s default unit of ...

America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.” It is January 2026. I'm not sure if we've given it all as citizens ...

President Donald Trump’s long-serving aide, Stephen Miller, recently opined: “We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that ...

Trump’s narcissism has been on display for decades.  It is a serious personality disorder that is difficult to treat.  According to one prominent psychiatrist, Alexa Albert, narcissism is shaped by ...

According to the latest figures released by the Gaza Ministry of Health (GMoH) on December 23rd 2025, Israel had killed at least 70,937 Palestinians and wounded 171,192; of those identified fatalities ...

Andrew Jackson led armed forces into what is now Alabama on a homicidal mission against Creek Indians. Refusing to discriminate between the armed and ...

In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ...

A murder in Minneapolis. A kidnapping in Caracas. Genocide in Palestine. Termination of trans people’s healthcare and rights. Criminalization of pregnant people. Detention, disappearance, deportation, ...

If a person illegally burns something, it is called arson. But when the federal government decides to deforest and burn ...

Karen Hao reported in her book Empire of AI: “Sam Altman announced he wants to see 250 gigawatts of data-center capacity laid by 2033 just for his company. New York City [uses] on average 5.5 ...

In this special episode of CounterPunch Radio, Bill Ayers, friend of Pilsen Community Books and fellow podcaster at Under the Tree, ...