Julia Conley Common Dreams In a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times Saturday, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani made clear that he plans to take any action available…
Clau O’Brien Moscoso, Black Agenda Report. The Hard Right Advances in Latin America and the Caribbean. Keiko Fujimori won the Peruvian presidency with help from the U.S. ambassador. Her victory…
Committee on Academic Freedom Committee on Academic Freedom | Middle East Studies Association of North America | – Letter regarding the intensifying repression of students across Iran Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei…
Jeffrey Wernick There is a phrase that does a great deal of work in American political argument, and almost none of it honest. The phrase is American culture, invoked as…
Matt Willgress, Orinoco Tribune. Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela. While Britain continues its colonial theft of gold. Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of…
Austin D. Sarat ScheerPost The Supreme Court’s MAGA majority has done almost all it can to turn the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom into one of the Constitution’s most…
Michelle Witte The Grayzone A wave of strange property attacks targeting Jewish sites in Canada is attributed to apolitical youth paid in crypto. The violence follows the same playbook seen…
Janine Jackson FAIR “One-Year-Old Boy Killed After Officer Fires at Vehicle in Mississippi,” said the New York Times headline (6/16/26). So, a “one-year-old boy”—what most people would call a baby—was…
Kit Klarenberg Substack The May 11th resignation of Christian Schmidt, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s High Representative, has elicited little mainstream interest. However, his departure is an absolutely seismic development, which could…
Kenneth Carlson ScheerPost There was a time in America when the moral instruction offered to children in kindergarten sounded almost embarrassingly simple. Share. Be kind. Play fair. Clean up your…
Judge Johnson so rigged the trial of anti-genocide activists that 1000s of legal professionals have urged him to step down from the sentencing hearing. But Johnson’s dirty work is not…
(And Not Just the Paper) Tom Engelhardt Substack Let me try to tell you what an old man I really am. As a start, imagine this: I still read the…
Jennifer K. Rumple Prism Deep East Oakland, California. Locals call it “Deep in the E” or simply, “The Deep.” This is where Diamond Allen primarily grew up in the early…
Chris Hedges The release of the Epstein Files has shocked the public with unimaginable stories of the pedophilia, exploitation of women and brash depravity of the ruling class. While these…
Israeli drones have killed at least eight people in Lebanon despite an announcement Monday by U.S. President Donald Trump that both Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to stop fighting. Trump’s…
