“I don’t think we live in a functioning democracy—and that has been true for some time.” Hedges Joshua Scheer Six months into the disastrous U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, the fantasy of a quick and decisive victory has collapsed. American weapons stockpiles are dwindling, energy and food prices are soaring, Washington’s Gulf alliances are fracturing and […]
Steepening gas prices, Medicaid cuts, war with Iran... Norm Ornstein joins John Harwood to dissect how Trump's chaotic reign will far outlast him once he goes.
Juan Cole Informed Comment The phony controversy cooked up by rightwingers over Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s participation in the upcoming anniversary mourning the September 11, 2001 al-Qaeda attack on the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York is mired in bigotry and Islamophobia, and most of all in ignorance. Not wanting Mamdani to preside over […]
Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Fidel Castro would have turned 100 this week. His revolutionary legacy of reminds us that breaking free from neocolonial plunder demands the rigorous construction of productive capacity and an unyielding commitment to human dignity. I was only sixteen years old when I first set eyes on Fidel Castro at […]