Like his predecessors, President Trump has plans for GuantĆ”namo Bay. It is somewhat odd, when you think about it, that the U.S.…
Tomorrow is Election Day, the close of the most consequential election of our lifetimes. Get out and vote, if you havenāt already,…
Thereās strangely little discussion right now of the unbelievably dangerous situation in Ukraine. Joe Biden is under great pressure to allow Ukraine…
Kristen Ghodsee is Professor of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of books like Why…
Today we speak to Norman Solomon about his new book War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine. Norman…
Incredibly, there is a new effort afoot to allow more child labor in the U.S. The Economic Policy Institute reported earlier this month that…
Lately, I have beenĀ experimentingĀ with artificial intelligence image-generating programs. Their power is astonishing. Theyāre not just good at the technical aspect of creating…
Joe Bidenās presidency has been an abject failure. This is certainly the impression one gets from looking at theĀ latestĀ Washington Post-ABC News poll…
āPrince Harry, Duke of Sussexā (real name Henry Mountbatten-Windsor), a member of the British āroyal familyā (a small group of ultra-wealthy elites who…
This week I had the rather strange experience of voting to make slavery illegal. Louisianaās proposedĀ Amendment 7Ā would āremove involuntary servitude as punishment…
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