Climate activists are calling out pro sports teams across the U.S. Why? The answer is the teams' sportswashing partnerships with Big Oil. According to

Centrism ...Much of our politics now consists of performance rather than governance.  The calculations are short-term by design: win the week, dominate

Forty-seven years ago, after a millennium of monarchical rule, Iran reinvented its political system. The Islamic Republic was birthed by the Revolution of

One of the issues that bothered many economists, including me, were the complaints that people were falling behind — even as the data on wages and

Attorney General Pam Bondi’s contentious House hearing about the Justice Department’s handling of the Epstein files offered a clear message to the nation:

It’s been a tumultuous couple of weeks for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The agency followed through on its plan to rescind the 2009

If you’re too busy or overwhelmed by life or AI to listen to my sixth annual State of the Sexual Union address (2026), delivered live 2/14/2026 on Active

When Marco Rubio took the stage at the Munich Security Conference on February 15, 2026, and delivered his sputtering paean to "Western civilization," the

Human primates seem extremely keen to shock each other these days. Arizona-based Axon Enterprise, Inc. (formerly Taser International) produces

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In our latest, we talk with legendary filmmaker, screenwriter, actor and novelist John Sayles. We start with a discussion about his new novel “Crucible.”

Pam Bondi’s combative exchanges and derisive comments before the House Judiciary Committee revealed a contempt for democratic procedure. This was not mere

“I’m not scared, you’re scared!” is the repeated line in a children’s story we recently read to the kids at the Unitarian Universalist version of Sunday

A January 2026 Gallup poll showed that 89 percent of all Americans expect high levels of political conflict this year, as the country heads toward one of

Last year, I was living in the UK when activists from the anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian direct action group Palestine Action hugely. embarrassed the Royal Air Force and the British government by cutting their way through a security fence surrounding  an RAF…

Disappearance under neoliberal fascism does not operate through a single institutional or aesthetic form. Alongside the spectacular violence of ICE raids,

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg are joined by Brian Jones to discuss his new book, Black History Is for Everyone,

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. – Mark Twain The scene in front of me was one of the greatest juxtapositions I had

A Munich Conference without myth would require attendees to squarely address a global, security system that serves to enrich what Bob Dylan in 1963 -- year of the first conference – called the “masters of war.” It would also reckon with the senseless economic…

Hey, want to read a poem with me? Warning: It opens several disturbing doors, the least disturbing of which is the “crazy old coot” part, i.e., me. Once

The president and secretary of defense have failed in their effort to see to the execution of six members of Congress after the lawmakers had the nerve to