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How The Deep State Actually Works
Global politics has profoundly changed in recent years. Russia’s war in Ukraine, Israel’s genocide against Gaza, and the election of Donald Trump for a second time, have all shifted expectations, norms...
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In Trump’s America, You Can Be Disappeared for Writing an Op-Ed
While in Georgetown, Guyana, on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked by a reporter about what led to the arrest of Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk. The reporter mentioned...
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The Myth of “Anti-White Racism”
For several years now, a phrase has been recurrent in French public debate, used to discredit discussions on discrimination: “anti-white racism.” It is mainly propagated by the far right, its...
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Racism in American Education
The book under review, by Dr. Eve Ewing of the University of Chicago, is a manifesto arguing for educational abolitionism: abolishing the American system of education as it currently exists and...
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What Is Happening in South Sudan?
In late 2024, Kiir’s regime began military campaigns in three states: Western Equatoria, Western Bahr el Ghazal, and Upper Nile. All three states have experienced multiple government offensives since...
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The Hidden Hand: Arab Governments and the Perpetuation of Israeli Brutality
Explaining Arab political failure to challenge Israel through traditional analysis—such as disunity, general weakness, and a failure to prioritize Palestine—does not capture the full picture. The idea...
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How Elon Musk, George Soros and Other Billionaires Are Shaping the Most...
Ten years ago, when Wisconsin lawmakers approved a bill to allow unlimited spending in state elections, only one Republican voted no. “I just thought big money was an evil, a curse on our politics,”...
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Postal Workers Throng to 500 Rallies to Save the Postal Service
From big cities to small towns, postal workers organized hundreds of rallies across the country in the past week to defend a beloved public service—and the nation’s largest union employer—against...
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Terrified That Peace Might Break Out: Have European Leaders Completely Lost...
The doctor is in: diagnosing Europeans’ ‘imaginary American voter syndrome’ A necessary theoretical introduction: the least of Europe’s problems, or at least of its current ruling elites, is that it is...
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The Vast Gaza Death Undercount – Undermines Civic, Diplomatic and Political...
The vast undercount of Israeli-caused deaths in Gaza is regularly reported as 50,000. The actual toll from violent military action and the indirect deaths (stemming from infectious disease, epidemics,...
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The Real Outrage in Yemen
Beginning in March of 2017 and for the following eight years, at 11:00 a.m. on every Saturday morning, a group of New Yorkers has assembled in Manhattan’s Union Square for “the Yemen vigil.” Their...
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How We Can Prevent Collapse
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I examine how we can plug into climate groups to take climate action. Individual, consumer actions are not enough. We must band together for...
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Crude Capitalism, New Centres of Capital Accumulation and the Middle East’s...
Adam Hanieh is a professor of Political Economy and Global Development at the University of Exeter, whose research focuses on capitalism and imperialism in the Middle East. His latest book is Crude...
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America’s Constitutional Crisis
In conversation with Chris Hedges legal scholar Katherine Franke explains trump’s authoritarian Crackdown. The United States is facing a constitutional crisis one that if it is not resolved will cement...
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Betar: The Far-Right Hate Group Helping Trump Deport Israel’s Critics
A far-right, pro-Israel group with a history of support for terror and genocide is working closely with the Trump administration, preparing dossiers on thousands of pro-Palestine figures it wants...
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The Unlikely Resistance in Turkey
Something unexpected is happening in Turkey. A centrist party, which has been shifting ever further to the right over the last three decades, is being forced to act as a center-left party. Its leader,...
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As Federal Environmental Priorities Shift, Sovereign Native American Nations...
Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded the environment. As...
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Colombia Wants to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
Colombian president Gustavo Petro intends to stop exporting fossil fuels to the global market. The country’s first left-wing government has prioritized the interests of local workers and indigenous...
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Trump Admin Threatens To Pull California School Funding Unless It Forcibly...
On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education opened an investigation into California’s Department of Education over Assembly Bill 1955, a law passed last year that limits the forced outing of...
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“Love Your Neighbor” Pope/Vance Controversy
Recent news reports brought to my attention something that I completely missed when it first happened almost two months ago: JD Vance opining ignorantly and dangerously on Jesus of Nazareth’s teachings...
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