More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the 2024…
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When we speak of poverty in political or academic discourse, we often tend to treat it as a neutral phenomenon, as though…
Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
Measure 20-373, “The Lane County Watersheds Bill of Rights,” which is on the ballot for the May 19th election in western Oregon,…
NATO overreach It is easy to understand why some “peace” people are criticizing Donald Trump’s frequent threat to pull the US out…
Since Donald Trump entered the White House in 2016, his political behavior has become a recurring subject of debate in political science…
Another Venezuela? Negotiations are ongoing between the US and Cuba as the Trump administration decides whether or not to apply the Venezuela…
The 2026 escalation of conflict and atrocity crimes in the Gulf is not simply another geopolitical crisis. It is becoming a systemic…
Among leftists, the question of why one continues to use the word “socialism” can for most seem almost unnecessary—until one notices how…
For over forty years, I have worked inside what critics call the “NGO-industrial complex.” In 1982, as a Vietnam combat veteran, I…
For many socialists and revolutionaries for a long time, the “working class” has been seen as THE revolutionary group. Karl Marx in…
Recently, three events unfolded in the state of California: a foreclosure that led to the shooting death of a sheriff and the…
A dangerous right-wing solution to homelessness is to hide the unhoused in out-of-sight detention camps. A 2024 Treasury Department report articulated the leading cause…
Capitalism only cares about profits, so it is not surprising that care work is undervalued in capitalist societies. Yet care work is…
On Friday night, CODEPINK and the local University of Michigan community gathered to hold a vigil in honor of UM researcher Dr.…
On May 1st, workers, students, and families across the United States will refuse business as usual in the next national mobilization planned…
I have been a vegan for a number of years, but have kept it low key. I am surrounded by meat eaters…
Claims of success in animal welfare, climate policy, and corporate sustainability often rely on narrow metrics that obscure whether real-world harms are…
The manifesto published by Palantir Technologies is neither a technical document nor an economic vision. It is an explicit political document announcing…
A pause in war is rarely peace. It is something more fragile, more deceptive—like the brief stillness between crashing waves, when the…
I recently helped organize a talk by Dr. Tom Alter, who was fired from his job at Texas State University in the…
It is tempting to argue that Israel’s new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual war—but the reality is more complex. Not that…
There are moments in public discourse that do not surprise by their content—because they belong to well-established ideological patterns of the darker…
In 2016, my best friend, Sergio, and I opened P.A.R.C. (Politics, Art, Roots, Culture), a community and cultural center located in the…
If the objective of the U.S. war upon Iran is to ensure that that country does not develop nuclear weapons, that goal…
The US government under Donald Trump has twice used disingenuous negotiations with Iran to provide cover for attacking it, in June 2025…
In what is perhaps the best book on Hitler, Allan Bullock wrote in Hitler: A Study in Tyranny that Hitler’s philosophy is…
“It is the plot and the act of aggression which we charge to be crimes.” – Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson…
While the corporate press has successfully confined itself to the past, the past is never truly past: slavery still exists on our…
The history of women’s struggles in contemporary Iran has reached a point where it can no longer be interpreted simply within the…
A respected human rights activist has spoken repeatedly against the US-Israeli aggression on Iran. She recognizes the illegality of the war and…
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