BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: Jeanne Menjoulet – CC BY 2.0 For a good while one could blame Trump for the prosecutorial monstrosity perpetrated on journalist Julian Assange. But now it’s time for Trump to move over. […]
BY DAVID ROSEN Photo by Freddy Kearney PEN America recently reported that over the previous nine-month period there were 1,586 instances of individual books being banned, affecting 1,145 unique book titles. These incidents took place in 86 school districts […]
BY NICK PEMBERTON I love Chapo Trap House. However, I don’t get much from most of the left media that followed them. The only other leftist podcaster I listen to regularly anymore is Derick Varn, who […]
BY SARAH RAYMUNDO Photograph Source: U.S. State Department – Public Domain U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in the Philippines to meet the newly elected President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. just as the Rim of the […]
BY VLADIMIR SLIVYAK Photo by Egor Myznik A potential worldwide nuclear accident at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is back on the agenda. The UN and the IAEA, without addressing any of the parties to the conflict […]
BY STEVEN HIGGS Photograph Source: Stickman42 – CC BY-SA 4.0 News that the Herald-Times newspaper building was going on the auction block didn’t exactly land here in Bloomington, Indiana. like a blinding left hook. The end of a 61-year […]
BY DAVE LINDORFF Salman Rushdie having a discussion with Emory University students. CC BY-SA 2.5 Author Salman Rushdie, 75, one of Britain’s most acclaimed contemporary authors, was gravely wounded at he Chautauqua Insitute in upstate New York […]
BY ANDREA MAZZARINO Army Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division, boards a C-17 aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021. Photo: US Army, Master Sgt. […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG “The End of the Road.” Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. With far-right kooks in GOP-controlled state legislatures backing drastic electoral alterations, we could have a real mess come November. The goal, in states like […]
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER Image by Matt Palmer. Could somebody please get an extension ladder to help Senator Schumer down from the ceiling? He’s stuck in the rafters in a high-pitched note of self-congratulation whilst spraining his elbow […]