How Mesopotamia’s urban and industrial revolution started politics as we know it today
Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.
For Canada, the insane, insulting Trump land theft stunt is DOA – and GOP...
Why would any functional country, one actively welcoming diversity, science, modernity and democratic values, join incendiary, polarized, know-nothing American dysfunction?
A cruel hoax: The political economy of anti-immigration
The deep contradictions of anti-immigration—and other projects—are not overcome by hiding them under the veneer of slogans like “America First.”
Democrats irritated by voters who elected them need an attitude adjustment
While Trump’s forces are setting fire to the basic structures of American democracy, Democrats in Congress are widely perceived to be wielding squirt guns.
When – or if – will painful, endless MAGA contradictions doom its bash-America pillage?
Already Americans now strongly reject the J6 pardons, 83-17%, with even 70% of Republicans agreeing on violent offenders.
D is for Donald (and Decline)
The Big 3Ds (or Is It Four?)
Another Blackrock? Nearly 100 US mercenaries are in Gaza right now
96 American special forces are patrolling a checkpoint in the middle of Gaza, as Palestinians return to their homes in the north. If the history of American mercenaries tells us anything, then this could be deadly.
If you believe in social justice, you believe in veganism
Eating animal products is analogous to the oppressive and unjust actions by powerful humans upon other humans.
What the tawdry stunt to rename the Gulf of Mexico exposes about appalling, arrogant...
Behold imperial bellowing, another classic MAGA “bargain” that costs millions and lowers our prestige.
Greenland! Canada! The Panama Canal! The Gulf of America! Gaza!
Manifest destiny gets a reboot under President Donald Trump.