US President Trump ordered the airspace above and surrounding Venezuela “closed in its entirety” on November 29. Yet the US has as much legal and moral

There is a clarifying power to nonviolence. When Dr. Martin Luther King was jailed in Birmingham in 1963 for protesting racial segregation in that city,

Everyone in my public school third-grade class learned arithmetic. Apparently, this puts us way ahead of Donald Trump and much of the punditry. They

A familiar drama has resurfaced in Skopje. While I was still in Beijing attending the CASS academic conference on the Belt and Road Initiative, news broke

The U.S. now assumes leadership of the G20 until the Miami summit ends on December 15, 2026 – but not without having lost some crucial soft power. In the

The 2026 social security Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) is 2.8% which provides those receiving the most money from social security with more money compared to those receiving less. According to the Times report, the 2025 monthly social security payment…

For regular viewers of Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! Program, she and her team recently reported from the COP30 conference in Belém, Brazil.  This COPS

On this episode, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk with climate justice campaigner and author Tori Tsui. Tori is a Senior Advisor for the Fossil Fuel

Coaching Russia The official US line on how the peace plan to end the Ukraine war emerged has Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, and Jared Kushner

Courage is rarely convenient. Sometimes it is condemned. Ask Hugh Clowers Thompson Jr. On March 16, 1968, Thompson, a young Army helicopter pilot in the

Kidnapped from West Africa as a child and brought to Boston, Wheatley became the first African-American woman published in English, using her poetry to

I don’t know who came up with The Donroe Doctrine, but I am grateful for that bit of glibness. Any day now, we seem on the verge of something in Venezuela

United States President Donald Trump has, not unexpectedly, overreacted to the shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington, D.C. He is

It appeared to be a grim déjà vu when the final gavel dropped in Belem, Brazil and the COP30 text once again avoided naming fossil fuels. But this

Recently, Faunalytics, the animal-welfare research nonprofit, put out a report about how American voters respond to nonhuman policy proposals. I’ve seen

The agreement by NATO members to raise defense spending to 5 percent of GDP by 2035 has been welcomed across Western capitals as a moment of strategic

Growing up surrounded by World War II veterans, most of whom refused to discuss their service fighting the horrid fascist enemies, as kids we turned to

Seven years ago, at 30 weeks into a seemingly low-risk pregnancy, I unexpectedly began to bleed. Doctors diagnosed me with complete placenta previa. Then,

America loves a good illusion. It loves the performance of generosity from people who built their fortunes on systems that leave everyone else scrambling. That’s why the country is celebrating Michael and Susan Dell dropping $6.25 billion into “Trump Accounts.”…

"Some of those who believe tech lost its way are finding explanations in a book published a quarter century ago," according to David Streitfeld's

I’ve read dozens of books published by PM Press since its inception a couple decades ago. I’ve reviewed a good number of the ones I’ve read. In that time,