For decades, the United States presented the press as the “fourth pillar” of democracy—a force meant to monitor power, expose corruption, and…
Across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), water is far more than a resource. It is memory, territory, survival, identity, and…
“The most compelling reason for reforming our system is that the system is in no one’s interest. It is a suicide machine.” -Ronald…
We were filling the tank (and emptying the wallet) when a guy in a pickup truck with a Trump sticker started complaining…
When law graduates and students (joined by participants from neighbouring Kosovo and Albania) marched through Skopje in recent days demanding the right…
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The strategic and spiritual resonance of the Strait of Hormuz is deeply woven into Iran’s identity. It represents a profound geographic constant…
For some time now, we have maintained that there are three fundamental categories for understanding the Peruvian situation, especially following the popular…
The scenes unfolding in Beijing were carefully choreographed, yet politics can never be reduced to mere spectacle. When US President Donald Trump…
From Historical Necessity to Questions of Reassessment and Renewal The left in most countries of the Middle East and the Global South…
Many of those who voted for Donald Trump for President were attracted by his supposed dealmaking skills as advertised in the best-selling…
This is a call to action for men. How can so many of us stay silent in the face of an ongoing…
The United States is a nation of extraordinary wealth and extraordinary contradiction. Tens of millions of Americans live in material insecurity, while aggregate…
Although Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office…
The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed…
Since 9/11/2001 – when a 19 person volunteer unit from the Middle East, armed with a few box-cutters, forced the US public…
Nancy Duran Rodriguez took several pairs of work gloves to Mexico in 2025, intending to hand them out as a goodwill gesture…
As a Palestinian born in the 21st century, I am the generational product of Nakba survivors and the trauma that came with…
The election redistricting decisions made last week by the Virginia Supreme Court, by a 4-3 margin, and the US Supreme Court, by…
In April, the General Services Administration announced plans to automate 1 million work hours annually after cutting nearly 40 percent of its staff since…
The average citizen, far from being Aristotle’s ‘political animal’, is largely ignorant of political affairs; but he is aware of one thing:…
On May 6th the New York Post published an editorial full of the crudest Stalinist style smears against protestors who had just…
I want to start with a question we’ve all been asked a thousand times—in grocery stores, in elevators, in the opening minutes…
The war resides mostly in the background here in the aggressor nation. Most of those who think about it at all tend…
The CBS Sunday Morning program, “Next: Cuba?” which aired on April 26th, presented a discussion of the recent intensification of sanctions on…
The outrageous assaults on the free speech rights of the pro-Palestine movement are well-known. Trump’s broader assaults on the First Amendment are…
Fish farming, a form of aquaculture, is now the fastest-growing form of factory farming worldwide. This rapid expansion can be attributed to the industry’s…
Domestic and Care Work: Labor Without Wages or Recognition Domestic and care work is among the most marginalized forms of labor in…
In Podgorica, a new edition of Špiro Kulišić’s booklet On the Ethnogenesis of the Montenegrins has been published by the Dukljan Academy…
The apparent widespread popularity of Nayib Bukele’s government (regime) acts as a sophisticated media smokescreen. Under the guise of effectiveness lies the…
A review of Scott Kurashige, American Peril: The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2026. 341 pps.…
In September 2024, intermittent rainfall plunged northern Algerian Sahara into an almost apocalyptic atmosphere. In just forty-eight hours, more rain fell than…
Last week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth urged Congress to pass a 2027 Pentagon budget of 1.5 trillion dollars. He justified the…
To speak of the Strait of Hormuz today is already to enter a language of reduction. In policy briefings and military analyses,…
In global politics, decline doesn’t always announce itself with tanks rolling or markets crashing. Sometimes it starts more quietly—when a country that…
Empires rise and fall. They do not last forever. Imperial declines follow a gradual shifting of the economic tides, but are also…
U.S. pressure on Cuba is entering a new phase of escalation. Economic sanctions, financial restrictions, and limits on energy supplies are worsening…
As the diplomatic machinery in Beijing grinds into high gear for the May 14 summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, a…
“It is not enough to be against Donald Trump and MAGA, or against the control of both major parties in the USA…
[This is a transcript of Peter Bohmer’s Economics for Everyone panel discussion, “Stop U.S. Aggression Against Iran and Cuba”, May 7, 2026, in…
In India, over 123 million people voted in the four states of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal (home to 290…
Introduction: When “Protection” Becomes Punishment Does your community care about children? This deceptively simple question carries profound moral, social, and civic weight.…
The phrase “AI populism” has started doing the rounds, and as is typically the case when progressives reach for the word “populism,”…
There is deadly irony in the juxtaposition of Trump’s ‘anti-nuclear war’ on Iran, and the ongoing United Nations Review Conference for the…
Much of Germany’s labor relations system is governed by the idea of a social partnership between capital and labor – camouflaging the…
Much of the current discourse on the Middle East remains fixated on the US midterm congressional elections this coming November. This vote,…
For an outside reader, Bosnia and Herzegovina is often formally described as a sovereign state. In practice, however, it operates within a…
In Peoria, Illinois, children living in federally subsidized housing have been getting sick in the very places meant to shelter them. An investigation…
I’m old enough to have been politically cognizant, admittedly less so for a couple of the earliest, of thirteen presidents (14 if…
Canada is set to host the headquarters of the proposed Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), a new multinational institution designed to…
