Smoke billows following an Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 6, 2023. — AFPIn late October while his military bombed...
Hundreds of thousands of words have been written about the rise of the United States’ industrial and financial empire. These descriptions include...
I suppose I should be surprised by the ease with which the White House, the Pentagon, Nato and the ever more useless US Congress convinced much of...
There’s a rather descriptive phrase used to describe those who end up in prisons, jails and penitentiaries in the United States. Two words make up...
In the past couple years, some companies and public agencies have begun to address systemic racism in the United States. These efforts came as a...
I haven’t fired a gun since I was nineteen years old. It was a .22 caliber pistol with a long barrel and a wooden grip. I held it with two hands...
The Rittenhouse trial was a political trial. The far-right knew it could manipulate the evidence in its favor, especially given the nature of stand...
The world we live in is a world built primarily through a male lens. This can be seen in film and on television, in politics and academia. The...
The United States is a hard place to raise children these days. Most parents, no matter what social and economic status they hold, discover just how...
The last ten years have not been pretty. The chaotic hopes implicit in the Occupy movement in the US were dashed by the reactionary response...
Woody Guthrie wrote the words “This guitar kills fascists” on his guitar. Victor Jara was murdered by the Chilean military authorities during...
Author Christopher Ketcham opens his book ‘This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West’ with...
Many people think they have no use for history. Too often this is because the history people are taught in schools and the media just doesn’t ring...
Martin Luther King, Jr was murdered in Memphis on April 4, 1968. He was in the city to lend support to the city’s sanitation workers, a mostly...
The work I do demands interaction with homeless, often desperate people. Like me when I was on the streets, these men and women know the location of...
For decades, consumers of the US media have been fed a series of repeated lies concerning the status of northern Korea. Tales of mass starvation and...
The United States is in crisis. The world is in crisis. Inequality in all of its manifestations defines the economics that run our lives. For those...
