“The Second World War is here, and it is only a matter of time before the United States is an open belligerent…
It is easy to conclude that thirty years of intransigence by more developed countries doom hopes of any effective international agreement, as…
Introduction: Beyond the Illusion of Democratic Normality The political phenomenon of Donald Trump is often interpreted through the lens of exceptionality. In…
When I was working on The Fall of Israel (2024) and particularly The Obliteration Doctrine (2025), what I found most repulsive was…
In the fall of 2022, the European Parliament and the EU Council adopted a “directive” – the EU’s word for a law…
“We have nothing to do with that.” An American Medical Association staff member said this to me with a look of disdain…
After a Mintz corporate law firm legal team (led by a former research assistant to the late Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has every right to condition European relations with any other country or bloc on respect…
A Federal Reserve study published in April 2026 confirmed what economists had tracked since the tariff escalations of early 2025: core goods prices are…
That Friday in the southwestern Algerian Sahara was scorching hot, with temperatures soaring well above 40°C. The horizon vibrated under the weight…
Taking an invention and claiming it as yours is called intellectual property, based on practices followed by US and European businesses. But…
It has been five years since Germany’s supreme court – with the rather unpronounceable name of Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVerfG) – issued a decisive…
When we discuss post-traumatic stress disorder in the context of war, most people usually imagine a soldier, who is back from war…
Separating the meaning of Jewish identity and learning, distinct from the Israeli state and its underlying doctrine, is worthwhile work. It’s also…
The NDFP Special Office for the Protection of Children (SOPC) expresses its deepest condolences to the families, relatives, classmates, teachers, and communities…
The saying “that’s history” is usually meant to be dismissive, but in politics the past casts a long shadow over the future.…
Introduction Never before in human history has a small minority wielded this degree of control over the lives of the majority with…
Yemen cannot be reduced to simplified narratives such as “civil war” or a regional “Iran–Saudi proxy conflict.” What is unfolding in the…
U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion military budget for the fiscal year 2027, which would increase by 44 percent…
Trump is reeling because resistance is growing and his support is diminishing. The November elections look likely to both reflect and enlarge…
It is often said that generals are ready to fight the last war. In other words, after every war, the military evaluates…
The 60-day extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran may lead to lasting peace or it may be over…
There are people who live from their own work. There are people who live from the work of others. And then there…
After musician after musician pulled out from Trump’s “Freedom 250” concert, we’ve been left with Lee Greenwood, an opera tenor, and military…
At the end of May, Greg Bovino, the former chief of the US Border Patrol, was the keynote speaker at a “Remigration Summit” in…
“What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other…
While most of Germany’s corporate leaders strongly supported Adolf Hitler’s Nazis, this changed in post-Nazi Germany after 1945. Today, German capitalism is…
The announcement of the US/Iran Memorandum of Understanding allegedly ending the war between Iran and the USA/Israeli axis has brought forth more…
“The Left,” in the singular, is a simplified expression of the diversity of leftist movements[1]. By “the Left,” I mean all organized…
On Tuesday, June 16, The Guardian published a story that will probably never make it “above-the-fold” in America’s increasingly timid and understaffed…
U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion military budget for the fiscal year 2027, which would increase by 44 percent…
In recent weeks, Germany has experienced a targeted attack by Germany’s powerful employers and the ultra-conservative and super-neoliberal government on one of…
Each day, I reluctantly but inevitably log into my social media accounts to post essays, share important news articles, and generally check…
In a regulatory hearing this week, Duke Energy’s top executives admitted that they recruit the very data centers used to justify a…
The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the modern…
The US-Iran memorandum of understanding (MOU) has now been revealed, and it is clear why it took days before a US official…
In recent weeks, the misnamed US Department of Justice has indicted twenty-three activists on serious charges related to their organizing against institutional…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing perhaps the most precarious moment of his political career. He knows it. His allies know…
[This essay is part of a series of essays by Michael Albert which critiques Classical Left Ideologies and their value, meaning, and…
All objective analyses and data point to the Democrats numerically defeating the Republicans on November 3 in at least the House of…
Like oil in the twentieth century, lithium is the ‘white gold’ of the twenty-first. Demand for this key element is driving economic…
Although the U.S. labor movement is sometimes depicted as hawkish and xenophobic, this characterization ignores its repeated attempts to grapple with the…
In the southern Iranian city of Minab, where the heat rises from the earth in shimmering waves and the reality of imperialism…
Sixty to seventy percent of Mexico’s terrain is classified as arid or semiarid desert, typically with no rain for eight to nine…
Whenever I turn back to the history of Jim Crow, my teeth clench with rage. What enrages me is not only the…
The first surprise in store for us with this 2026 World Cup is the impressive amnesia of everyone involved, including the international…
The opening matches of the 2026 FIFA World Cup represent an ideological milestone for international sports. For the first time, forty-eight nations…
[This essay is part of a series of essays by Michael Albert which critiques Classical Left Ideologies and their value, meaning, and…
In peripheral capitalist formations, women are not merely a gendered or social category. They occupy a structural position at the intersection of…
On 14 June, as diplomats edged towards what could have become the most consequential US–Iran understanding in years, a bomb fell on…
