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Editorial PhilosophyA tiny piece of news out of Florida the other day poked me, you might say, in the rear end. The nation’s…
Midway through his cumulatively stunning new book “Soldiers Don’t Go Mad,” author Charles Glass quotes a declaration from The Times of London…
The context of this quarterly report is important. The trend toward a neofascist political economy continues to fester in some states as…
There are two phenomena in the contemporary US that are often confused to be the same. Although they may intermingle at times,…
Written upon learning… …that a federal appeals court in Louisiana (5th Circuit) ruled that a cop can sue a protest organizer for injuries caused…
The United States Supreme Court’s recent ruling striking down race as a factor in college and university admissions was in response to…
Numbers can be dehumanizing. However, when placed in their proper context, they help to illuminate wider issues and answer urgent questions, such…
The corner of State Street and South Street roughly intersect with Correctional Facility Road in Ossining, New York. It’s about an hour…
Dave Smith launched a union drive many years ago that generated enthusiastic support among his coworkers, but the effort died after management…
In the second and final national election contest in Greece, the conservative and far-right forces have triumphed. The left suffered a crushing…
It is still possible to stand in a redwood sorel garden, a garden that carpets a remaining grove of the world’s tallest…
On June 19, a large Israeli military force raided the northern Palestinian town and refugee camp of Jenin from multiple directions. Not only did…
An advocate of participatory economics, Mark Evans, has proposed that to attain a self-managing, equitable, classless, participatory economy we don’t need to…
The Fourth of July — the ultimate patriotic holiday — is approaching again. Politicians orate, American Flags proliferate and, even more than…
The Biden administration is expected to supply Ukraine with highly controversial depleted-uranium munitions which are to be fired from the Abrams battle…
Investigating the political economy of ideas is imperative to understanding foreign policy. But those seeking to discredit already marginalized critical perspectives shouldn’t…
Perhaps the greatest tragedy of the immensely destructive Ukraine War lies in the fact that it could have been averted. The most…
The potential new leader of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world body’s Nobel Prize-winning scientific network…
A recent Justice Department report concluded that “systemic” racial bias in the Minneapolis Police Department “made what happened to George Floyd possible.” During the…
“Berlusconi is there because others have failed.” These words by Italian columnist Massimo Franco were made to the Washington Post in 2018,…
China on Their Minds President Biden welcomed India’s prime minister Narendra Modi with much pomp and ceremony the other day. One senior…
On Sunday June 18, Boston’s LGBTQ Elders of Color (EOC) – also known as Flashback – held a gala luncheon and dance…
Here comes election time, yet again. Consider the potential of certain progressives winning high office in the U.S. Beyond their being better…
When a labor organization doesn’t have direct election of its national officers, hasn’t had a contested convention vote for union president since…
There’s a crucial, overlooked aspect of Daniel Ellsberg’s legacy that’s very much worth saluting, you might say: his transformation from a believer…
Introduction For those of us who are interested in organising for an economy that values self-management, cooperation and solidarity; a fair criteria…
Through a WhatsApp message from Portugal, my friend Eunice Neves asked to share a moment with me. She was with an Afghan…
Fadi, a Syrian teenager, with curly hair and an acne-covered face, has miraculously survived one of the greatest migrant boat disasters in…
A sign hung in a Greenfield, Massachusetts storefront window: “Negotiate for Peace in Ukraine” – the most direct of the many “Peace,”…
If hearing about the long struggles toward racial justice bothers you, read no further. If a Black woman venting about generations of…
We must be interested not only in the grand scale, systemic, and institutional changes that we so desperately need, but also in…
Me and the boys are leaving the Northeastern University jobsite. It’s April, the sweet combination of sunlight and breeze making it one…
As Ukraine prepared to launch its much heralded but long delayed counteroffensive, the media published a photograph of a Ukrainian soldier with…
Charges that public schools are subjecting children to leftwing indoctrination are proving to be mostly over-hyped or not at all based in…
In the vast panorama of comic book heroes, none is more iconic than Superman. Hailing from the far-off planet Krypton, this champion…
“Time itself is neutral; it can be used either destructively or constructively. More and more I feel that the people of ill…
When Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday, the world lost a transcendent whistleblower with a powerful ethos of compassion and resolve. Ellsberg’s renown…
Since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, headlines have focused on union organizing victories at Starbucks and Amazon. But a recent New…
I’m not really a Star Trek fan, but I did give it a go back in the day. The show was sometimes…
Norman Solomon’s new book, War Made Invisible (published by The New Press) shows how the U.S. hides the human toll of its…
The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive…
Cornel West, the prominent Black public intellectual, philosopher and theologian, professor at Yale, Princeton, Harvard, and the Union Theological Seminary, and an…
One hundred and fifty young people from the United States and Canada arrived in Cuba in late April 2023, just days before…
Ukraine, the United States, and NATO have condemned what they correctly called Russian President Putin’s “dangerous and irresponsible” plan to soon deploy…
During the weekend of June 10-11 in Vienna, Austria, over 300 people representing peace organizations from 32 countries came together for the…
Corporate media outlets have often furthered racist narratives, and do so even today. In contrast, independent media outlets have centered racial justice,…
Cornerstone of American Foreign Policy The basis of American foreign policy had been well established long ago, more than a century prior.…
Attention-grabbing and sensationalist media capitalism has ensured that many people fear artificial intelligence (AI). For that, a monster called Frankenstein is often…
Normal describes beliefs or behaviors considered natural, proper, and permanent. Normal implies innate and unchallengeable. We don’t alter what’s normal. We don’t…
Europe keeps reminding us that geopolitical interests trump ideology. European politics is the prime example of how states and political parties are…