Just when America needs stronger child labor protections, the Trump administration is seemingly abandoning enforcement altogether. A disturbing new

I had an extraordinary day in court yesterday, and not as lawyer. I was shocked to watch the staff of a major metropolitan traffic division, from the

Men of factious tempers, of local prejudices, or of sinister designs, may, by intrigue, by corruption, or by other means, first obtain the suffrages, and

The Trump administration’s exercise in armed regime change in Venezuela should have come as no surprise. The U.S. naval buildup in the Caribbean and the

At the opening ceremony for Donald Trump’s so-called Board of Peace in Davos, Jared Kushner unveiled glossy images of his vision for a “new Gaza”: shining

Sheeple is defined as “people who are like sheep, meek, conforming, easily led.” And they are easy to herd when frightened. America’s most prominent

In the shadow of Israel's sprawling prison system, more than 10,000 Palestinians languish in detention as of early 2026—men, women, and children branded

"We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition," Canadian prime minister Mark Carney told the world's self-designated elite in a January 21 speech.

So what’s worse than a fascist atop world history’s most lethal superpower in the middle of an ecological catastrophe led by that superpower in an

Normally, when a president is a card-carrying pedophile protector; an inside-trading stock jobber; an obstruction-of-justice hall of famer; a lifetime

The agreement that terminated the Syrian Kurdish enclave was presented by its signatories as a pragmatic settlement. But, in fact, the deal is a major

I have a friend drawn to mountains. When he isn’t in the UK, he’s usually somewhere in the Nordic region or the Himalayas, where he is now. It’s not that

Since the January 3 U.S. invasion of Venezuela, reporters, politicians and public have grilled Donald Trump about a glaring contradiction in the war-on-drugs argument used to justify bombing Venezuela and abducting its sitting president. Just a month before…

This week, the trial of six young activists who attempted to disarm Israeli weapons in a British arms factory draws to a close. Thirty years ago this

Prologue In the early 1970s, I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on Adamantios Koraes at the University of Wisconsin. I read his voluminous writings and hundreds of

The Drill Baby Don has unveiled a new yacht club for mobsters. Perhaps his humorless advisors didn’t realize how closely its moniker, Board of Peace,

I don’t normally write about higher profile prisoners, opting instead to interview those prisoners who no one has heard of and have never accessed

I was thirteen when I watched the Rodney King beating on the evening news with my father. The grainy footage was relentless and impossible. I credit that

The top 15 wealthiest people in America are part of a very, very exclusive club: those with over $100,000,000,000 in net worth. After double checking

Last week, I wrote an article at CounterPunch about the killing of Renee Good by ICE agents in Minneapolis. When I wrote that piece, my goal was to stay