Joe Biden, the Hawk
If you’re looking for a president with a track record of boosting foreign intervention, expanding the surveillance state, and steadfastly backing Israel despite its war crimes, Joe Biden is your guy.
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The US Helped Massacre Yemeni Schoolchildren
The slaughter of forty Yemeni schoolchildren was the direct result of US imperialism and the profit-hungry arms industry.
Getting Gene Sharp Wrong
The legendary nonviolence theorist Gene Sharp wasn’t just a lonely scholar studying how political change happens. He was a Cold War defense intellectual whose ideas left a profound imprint on the way America wields power in the world.
Yes, Ronald Reagan Would Have Stood For Trump’s Treatment of the Press
Pundits would like you to think Trump's attacks on the press are unprecedented. But previous presidents like Reagan were even worse.
Jeffrey Epstein Encouraged Peter Thiel's Political Journey
Peter Thiel has gone from reclusive billionaire to high-profile political overlord. Hundreds of emails show that that journey was encouraged and facilitated by the late multimillionaire financier who considered him a “great friend”: Jeffrey Epstein.
You Absolutely Don’t “Gotta Hand It to Them”
Last night’s UK elections results point to a deep problem in world politics today: the gravitational pull of privileging cultural over economic combat — an outcome that consistently divides the Left and hands victory to the Right.
In the 2010s, the People Began Saying No to Endless War
The decade began with Bush-era jingoism intact. Then, the unthinkable happened: radical critiques of America’s endless wars and reflexive militarism that were once hopelessly marginal went mainstream.
Slavoj Žižek: What Lies Ahead?
Philosopher Slavoj Žižek writes in Jacobin that if we are to confront properly the threat of a catastrophe, we must embrace a new notion of time.
The Scott Morrison Honeymoon Is Over
Right-wing Prime Minister Scott Morrison came to power in Australia tapping into a wellspring of resentment and touting his support for fossil fuels. But now with catastrophic bushfires sweeping across the country, his approval ratings are in free fall.
Joe Lieberman? Really?
Joe Lieberman is offering warnings about the rising left. While laughing at his advice, you should also remember how absolutely terrible his entire career has been.
The Jerry Lewis of International Diplomacy
Is Trump’s foreign policy the work of an incompetent ignoramus or a strategic genius? The answer may surprise you.
The Need for Carbon Removal
Too much global warming is already locked in. We need a radically utopian way of removing carbon from the atmosphere.
Ten “Somebodies” Who Like Hillary
According to Hillary Clinton, “nobody likes” Bernie Sanders. But it raises the question: Just who exactly likes her?
The Worst People of 2019
Before 2019 comes to a close, let’s take one last look at the most obnoxious, appalling, and insidious personalities of the past twelve months. These are eight auld acquaintances we’d desperately like to forget — here’s hoping we’ve heard the last of them.
The New Balkan Route
Along the new migration route through southeastern Europe, migrants are beaten, stranded, and neglected, while the EU looks the other way.
Everything You Wanted to Ask About Sects . . . But Were Afraid to Know
We joined the New Communist Movement because we were serious about changing the world. It taught us much about how to organize — and how sectarianism ruins everything.
From Criminals to Heroes
Top intelligence officials like John Brennan have been posturing as Trump critics to obscure their own scandalous pasts. And many liberals are buying it.
What a Socialist Approach to Gun Violence Should Look Like
We’re thankfully beginning to see mass organizing and protest against the epidemic of gun violence in the United States. But we can’t let billionaires like Michael Bloomberg and solutions that further criminalize the poor and increase police power dominate the debate — we need a socialist approach to ending gun violence.
How the Cartels Were Born
What's known as the "Mexican Drug War" was fueled by American free-market policies.
A Small Victory in Jordan
Despite the recent success of Jordanian protests against austerity, the barriers to previous attempts to transform the country during the Arab Spring protests are still there.