At the end of the Vietnam War era, a political theorist, whose name I cannot remember, made the prediction that the US global empire would last another

You cannot eat words. Rhetoric does not pay medical bills. Face it—the Democrats didn’t just lose the shutdown fight; they were crushed. And the brutal

I’ve been feeling burned out politically. My hope is the November 4 election results are a sign the American public is increasingly rejecting President

Ireland just made history by electing Catherine Connolly as its next president in a milestone victory that attracted international attention. Historian

Two weeks ago, the Senate passed three resolutions to end tariffs on Brazil, Canada, and globally that the Trump administration unilaterally imposed

The imperialist exploitation of West Asia that accelerated after the First World War has never ceased. The effects on the region have been

The roughly 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps did not receive their November 1 SNAP benefits as the government shutdown dragged on. The missed

Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s happening fast. Based upon

Several years ago, at a cocktail reception in an upscale Upper East Side New York apartment, a very tan and energetic middle-aged man approached me. “Who

Israel’s allies worldwide are desperately scrambling to help Tel Aviv re-establish a convincing narrative, not only concerning the Gaza genocide, but the

Donald Trump rode back into office by leaning on the same faux populist refrain he weaponized a decade ago: immigrants are “taking your jobs!” Since then,

Zohran Mamdani's quoting of Eugene Debs in his recent victory speech (for mayor of New York City) should awaken interest in the man who gained a name for

Today, Donald Trump presides over his own Murder Incorporated, less a government than a death squad. Many brushed off his proclamation early in his second

“The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They

Trying to understand the economy is always like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. We get all sorts of pieces of disparate data which we try to put

After years of steady decline in the number of people executed in the United States, there has been a sharp reversal in 2025. So far this year, 41 people

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Josh MacPhee and Kennedy Block, authors of the new book, Strike While the

The carnage in Gaza has unleashed a cinematic wave of features and documentaries about Palestine, and the latest and one of the most heart-wrenching, is

Public intellectuals have declined due to self-censorship, administrative demands, and corporatization of universities.​ Academic freedom is in sharp decline, with nearly two-thirds of faculty curtailing teaching and research activities due to fear of institutional…

Western societies find themselves assailed by “loneliness epidemics” like the one declared by the previous US surgeon general, who linked the plague of

Since the nation’s founding, those in authority have sought to promote a morality of “family values” anchored in a belief in the patriarchal,