Boyah J. Farah fled the war in Somalia arriving in the United States as a refugee with his mother and siblings when…
Chris Hedges
The consolidation of American media by a handful of monopolies has had wide-reaching effects on our politics and culture. A real decline…
There was once a wing of the Democratic Party that stood up to the war industry. J. William Fulbright, George McGovern, Gene…
The Congressional decision to prohibit railroad workers from going on strike and force them to accept a contract that meets few of their demands is part of the…
Retired Army Colonel Andrew Bacevich argues America’s leaders are woefully out of touch with reality, and unable to adapt to a changing…
As this century began, I was writing War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, my reflections on two decades as a war correspondent,…
August Wilson wrote 10 plays chronicling Black life in the 20th century. His favorite, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” is set in…
This is the speech given by Chris Hedges outside the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. on Saturday October 8 at a…
The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by inflation, stagnant wages, austerity, the…
The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in…