In recent years, the news media has often reported polls suggesting that majorities of segments of the American populationāfor example, Democrat voters…
On May 6th the New York Post published an editorial full of the crudest Stalinist style smears against protestors who had just…
Last month, Omer Bartovācurrently holding the title of Deanās Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Brown Universityāpublished the book Israel: What…
When the US backed dictator of Iran, Shah Mohamed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown in 1979 and the Islamic Republic led by the…
One of the curious phenomena of Israelās genocidal slaughter in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023 is that it has moved…
In November of last year, in an egregious abuse of defamation law, former progressive journalist (and current right wing influencer) Matt Taibbi…
Noam Chomsky has been in the news lately for titillating and unpleasant reasons. For me, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is relatively…
In his excellent new book Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon Valley, the independent left wing business journalist Jacob…
As a proudly Autistic person, I can say that, rightfully, there has been much ridicule and outrage among decent and thoughtful people…
On July 10th, the Trump White House announced the nomination of Nick Adams to be US ambassador to Malaysia. A native of…
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