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I sunk the saved fingers of turmeric root into the tub of soil back in Winter. I waited weeks—as always. No growth.…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the most precarious moment of his political career. He knows it. His allies know…
Back in the early 1970s, for a book titled What Is To Be Undone, I looked from deep within the Sixties but at…
In the southern Iranian city of Minab, where the heat rises from the earth in shimmering waves and the reality of imperialism…
Last week’s SpaceX IPO made Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire, despite the fact that the company has lost tens of billions…
These are insecure times. My relatives in Tehran are bracing for bombs to fall again. Fighter planes screamed through the skies here…
In the early 1970s, in a book titled What Is To Be Undone, I took a look at the New Left movements…
In peripheral capitalist formations, women are not merely a gendered or social category. They occupy a structural position at the intersection of…
May Day, 2024, was a day of celebration for over 3,500 graduate student research and teaching assistants at the University of Pennsylvania…
Like most of America’s wars in West Asia, the current joint U.S.-Israel attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran is about securing…
“While technological successes are celebrated, the social fabric is progressively eroded, as if by a silent virus.” — Pope Leo XIV The artificial…
On May 1, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order authorizing additional sanctions on Cuba. Trump said, “We will be taking it…
One of the more troubling and counterproductive phenomena taking place in today’s digital landscape is the rise of the online pundit. On…
When Mel Mandy gave birth to her first child twenty-five years ago, the doctor told her off for smoking while pregnant. Her…
Tourism workers in Southern California just won a historic battle for the highest minimum wage in the nation—a perfect counterpoint to the…
The climate crisis is worsening many of the economic and social inequalities already faced by women and girls, making it harder to…
Cuba has been under a U.S. trade embargo since the Eisenhower administration, although it was President John F. Kennedy who implemented a…
From teachers to the mothers searching for the forcibly disappeared, Mexico will be holding numerous, massive protests against the 2026 Men’s World…
I was recently surveying my computer’s contents and I came across the text of a book I had written over a half…
“Defining Trumpism, defeating Trump” is based on talks given by Paul Le Blanc in Potsdam, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Mannheim, during a May…
