Friday, July 25, 2025

How low can the barons of high finance go?

Betsy DeVos is bad, but the bankers she serves are even worse.

The national prison strike is over. Now is the time prisoners are most in...

The fact is that men and women behind bars are in most in danger in the days, weeks and months after they have dared to protest.
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Noam Chomsky on Pittsburgh attack: Revival of hate is encouraged by Trump’s rhetoric

The nation is continuing to grieve the 11 Jewish worshipers who were gunned down at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh Saturday in what’s being described as the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.

The IMF showed the world how not to celebrate International Women’s Day

The IMF’s appeals for women’s economic stability in the recipient countries of their loans are a slap in the face to the women who are living proof of the IMF’s indifference to the human suffering they cause.

Trump administration’s attacks on science already surpass two Bush terms

Trump may have lauded the Apollo 11 mission, but his administration has launched more than 100 attacks on science.

My year and welcome to it

Here are four (million) of my own takeaways from 2021, a classic hell-on-Earth year that, if worse weren’t potentially on the horizon, could perhaps be quickly forgotten.

Crisis in the schools

A return to a normal that was never good enough.

Blowback for the twenty-first century

Remembering Chalmers Johnson.

Going to the Daytime Emmys

There was once a literate public. This is gone now, replaced by a vast burlesque.

Dallas official urges NRA to take its convention elsewhere and address the ‘madness now’

Dwaine Caraway is asking the NRA to find another place to host this year's annual convention, as well as urging members to take a stand on the issue.