KATHRYN SHIHADAH They can change the story about Israel in Congress (Top row, left to right: Rashida Tlaib (D-MI-13), Cori Bush (D-MO-01), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY-16); bottom row, left to right: Ilhan Omar (D-MN-05), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez […]
ALISON WEIR Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor in a meeting with Israeli army officials. (Ha’aretz) Col.Douglas Macgregor, one of several Trump loyalists recently installed at the Pentagon, says the pro-Israeli lobby in the United States […]
BY EVE OTTENBERG Photograph Source: michael_swan – CC0 On election night, one exit poll revealed that 48 percent of respondents believed the government had done a good job, including coping with Covid-19. In other words, 48 percent […]
BY ANDREW LEVINE Photograph Source: Senate Democrats – CC BY 2.0 The world owes Donald Trump thanks. But for him, our next president would be Donald Trump, and “moderate” Democrats – spineless defenders of the pre-Trumpian status […]
BY BRIAN CLOUGHLEY Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The President of the United States has the power to fire off thousands of nuclear weapons and destroy the world. As succinctly explained by William Perry and Tom […]
BY STEVEN DANDANEAU Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Consult Roger Cohen in the Times on the “shrinking American mind” or Max Boot in the Post on the “sleaziest presidential campaign ever,” or any number of kindred spirits, and it is […]
BY RUSSELL MOKHIBER John Lansing, CEO, NPR. Ever wonder why you rarely hear serious discussion on National Public Radio (NPR) about corporate crime and violence? For a hint as to why, pick up the most recent NPR […]
BY PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Fibonacci Blue – CC BY 2.0 I am an author, political commentator, teacher, and historian who prefers in “normal times” to spend most of my time researching, writing, and teaching. This summer […]
BY PAUL STREET Photograph Source: Jakehonig – CC BY-SA 3.0 The irony on Thursday morning cable news was too delicious not to savor. MSDNC anchor Halle Jackson could barely contain her glee over how former president Barack […]
BY T.J. COLES Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair In my new book, Capitalism and Coronavirus: How Institutionalized Greed Turned a Crisis into a Catastrophe, I argue that neoliberalism exacerbated COVID-related deaths in six steps, one of which […]