The re-coronation of the lumpen-capitalist Donald Trump as US president is a no-doubt consequential moment. Yet Trump has ...

While it is debatable as to exactly which of the many war-mongering lies told by politicians has resulted in the most ...

The idea of slavery in modern times is a foreign concept for most Westerners. Of course, the Black Lives Matter movement was ...

When I read Thomas Gaither’s obituary in the New York Times, “Thomas GaitherKeep Your Head Down, Who Chose Jail After Civil ...

I’m always happy when something I and others have been talking about for years makes it to the New York Times. For that ...

It was from the US that the grey squirrel was first introduced to the UK. Two of them have now moved into the attic. I woke ...

The weekend after Christmas, one of my sources was stabbed in Bullock Prison. He and several witnesses to the stabbing described the incident to me in ...

I interviewed three anti-nuke activists to understand the Doomsday Clock and how our society thinks about the very real threat of nuclear war. “Dear young ...

Friedman’s dreamscape for the Middle East makes no sense on any level.  Even former secretary of state Antony Blinken eventually recognized that Israel has “systematically undermined the capacity and ...

With Republicans in control of all three branches of the federal government, liberal states should increasingly fund cultivated-meat research. For those ...

The U.S. is the only NATO member to ever activate the defense alliance. Yet the U.S. has the audacity to lecture Canada on our domestic spending ...

In the lead-up to and during World War II, fascist leaders in Europe targeted Jews, Roma, gay people and other groups as sources of “social pollution,” as beyond being human, while describing ...