Trump’s plan to neuter the white house press corps, and neuter our democracy
We’re in a new era, the reign of King Trump.
Greenland! Canada! The Panama Canal! The Gulf of America! Gaza!
Manifest destiny gets a reboot under President Donald Trump.
How GOP Candidates Would Deal with Syria (the Short Version) (Video)
During the second GOP debate at CNN, anchor Jake Tapper asked the question: "What would you do right now if you were president, to get the Russians out of Syria?" Watch as each candidate dodges the question.
Chris Hedges and Wallace Shawn on politics, playwriting and power
The two discuss experiences working in other countries and how those experiences led them, as Hedges puts it, to “grapple with the reality of empire.”
The end of empire
The empire will collapse and the nation will consume itself within our lifetimes if we do not wrest power from those who rule the corporate state.
Don’t impeach Trump. Annul his presidency
My betting is Trump remains president at least through 2020 – absent compelling and indisputable evidence he rigged the 2016 election.
Julian Assange’s fateful anniversary
On top of Assange’s individual case, the current health crisis is expanding the surveillance state in ways likely not dreamed of by authorities in most countries until this very moment.
Americans have been bilked out of billions during the pandemic from cynical profiteers
Unless America addresses runaway income inequality and begins protecting the most vulnerable in society, the next pandemic will hit the nation even harder.
The Most Important Neglected Middle East Stories of 2015
The past 12 months saw enormous political, economic and military shifts in the Middle East, changing its geopolitics for the foreseeable future.
The Story about Democratic Convention Pledged Delegates that Nobody Talks About
Clinton's only ahead of Sanders thanks to 6 Deep South states irrelevant in November.