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May Day, 2024, was a day of celebration for over 3,500 graduate student research and teaching assistants at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn): we had just won our National Labor

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 control over the region’s energy resources and preserving

ā€œWhile technological successes are celebrated, the social fabric is progressively eroded, as if by a silent virus.ā€ — Pope Leo XIV The artificial intelligence industry likes to refer to its

Top Iran analyst Dr. Hassan Ahmadian tells Drop Site that Donald Trump was forced to seek a deal on Iran’s terms after meeting the ā€œhard rockā€ of Iranian resistance. Drop

On May 1, 2026, President Trump signed an executive order authorizing additional sanctions on Cuba. Trump said, ā€œWe will be taking it (Cuba) over almost immediately.ā€ These continued threats follow

In the late 1960s and early ’70s, a number of members of the American New Left that had incubated on college campuses in the prior decade set out to take

Harvard University leaders have been soliciting wealthy donors for $10 million contributions to fund endowed professorships with the stated goal of expanding ā€œviewpoint diversityā€ on campus. Pardon me for finding this hypocritical.

Odds are good that no one has ever asked if you are an internationalist, but your answer to that question reveals much about your orientation to your fellow human beings around the

Judge Johnson had proved his fascist credentials through rulings much earlier in the Filton trial than his vicious sentencing. Indeed, he had arguably already shown them when he released Tommy Robinson from

Elon Musk is set to become the world’s first trillionaire today after the public debut of his rocket and AI company, SpaceX. Sit with that number for a moment. A

More than 400 years have passed since the first white colonists arrived in North America to establish a settlement, and more than 160 years since slavery was abolished, yet structural

When Guadalajara hosted the Pan American Games 15 years ago, former mayor Aristóteles Sandoval proposed a Human Relocation Plan to ā€œclear the city center of unhoused people, window washers, and

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