BY DEAN BAKER The December job report again showed an extraordinary divergence between the establishment survey and the household survey. The establishment survey showed the economy creating just 199,000 jobs, while the household survey showed a […]
BY RAMZY BAROUD Photograph Source: Jeanne Menjoulet – CC BY 2.0 Although 2021 is now behind us, there are many issues that will linger for a while, or much longer, and will certainly dominate much of the […]
BY PETER COSTANTINI Photograph Source: Ken Mayer – CC BY 2.0 A large encampment of mainly Haitian migrants appeared abruptly in September at a border crossing in the town of Del Rio, Texas. The reactions to it […]
BY K.J. NOH Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other members of the Biden Cabinet are fond of proclaiming the “rules-based international order” (RBIO) or “rules-based order” every chance they get: in […]
BY BINOY KAMPMARK Photograph Source: Marco Verch – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Julian Assange has now been in the maximum-security facilities of Belmarsh prison for over 1,000 days. On the occasion of his 1,000th day of imprisonment, campaigners, supporters and kindred […]
BY SAM PIZZIGATI l Photograph Source: concrete&fells – CC BY 2.0 Our conventional political wisdom, here in the United States, tends to see utopians as lefty egalitarians of one sort or another, clueless reformers and revolutionaries who […]
BY RALPH NADER The progressive citizen groups, that in the sixties and seventies, drove through Congress the key environmental, worker, and consumer legislation, since unmatched, must feel nostalgic. Those were the years when legislation throwing cruel […]
If he loses due to his support for BDS, Florida congressional candidate Omari Hardy says his “conscience will be clear.” Alex Kane Florida State Representative Omari Hardy. Courtesy of Omari Hardy When Florida State Rep. Omari […]
Lila Corwin Berman’s new book traces the explosion of the American Jewish philanthropic sector over the past 70 years—and its corrosive effect on contemporary Jewish life. Raphael Magarik A Lion of Judah brooch, which signals a […]
BY NICK PEMBERTON “There are right-wing extremists in the U.S. bent on using violence to advance their political agenda, just as there are left-wing extremists and anarchist insurrectionary movements and many other types eager to do […]