A respected human rights activist has spoken repeatedly against the US-Israeli aggression on Iran. She recognizes the ...

The British Marxist historian E. J. Hobsbawm called it The Age of Revolution. It began in 1789, ran until 1848, and witnessed revolutions in industry, ...

Where is today’s public discussion on how much the U.S. economy will have to pay to rebuild an even vaster military-industrial complex to restock the missiles that Trump has used up? I’m not sure that ...

I’m currently working from the roof of the Austin Public Library, or at least I was working until I got distracted and started writing this instead. And ...

More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the ...

Let’s start with the good news. As of 2025, coal is no longer the dominant energy source worldwide. It’s been at the top for ...

Can anything make farmers turn away from Trump? How rightwing populism has gripped rural areas, especially among farmers, is evidenced by the results from ...

Xavier Becerra recently told Californians that we need to think about the future of humanity. He said it with conviction. He said it with urgency. He said ...

In the early hours of April 30, 2026, Israeli forces committed an act of piracy in international waters off the coast of Crete — more than 1,000 ...

The Common Root of Our Multiple Crises The world is confronted by a boggling array of crises, testing the limits of human comprehension, let alone hope.

You can't crush ideas by suppressing them.  You can crush them by ignoring them.  By refusing to think, refusing to change.  And that's precisely what ...

Darkology, written by Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, is a comprehensive, jaw-dropping survey of the grotesqueries known as minstrelsy and blackface. The book explodes the comforting notion that ...