Faced with a revolt among his MAGA faithful over his decision to join Israel in starting a war with Iran, our increasingly demented and delusional

Sick of watching, reading and writing about yet another war, Lola and I took off  for one of my favorite retreats in the Pacific Northwest, variously

A New York Times columnist offering pointers for "Pitchfork Pat" Buchanan-type populists on "the isolationist right who thought Trump shared his views"

Venezuela and Iran hold the largest and third-largest petroleum reserves in the world, respectively. Both have been targeted for regime change by

This essay is for Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good To understand the history of Venice, you need to know that there were three ways in which saints and

When you closely observe the media, it is astonishing to discover how many very newsworthy stories both camps ignore. 1. Impeachment of Trump—every week,

ICE currently detains hundreds of migrant children, many for over 20 days, and if you thought Kristi Noem’s deserved firing from the Department of

The US submarine torpedoing and sinking of an Iranian missile frigate known to be unarmed and not bound for Iran in any case (as without weapons to combat

I hate to be giving the Trump administration excuses for a weak economy, but I do feel an obligation to call the data as I see it and not make it up for

The United States has once again launched a war in the Middle East based on false claims about weapons of mass destruction. Like the invasion of Iraq in

Britain’s role in the recent machinations of the US empire has been central, despite going underreported and little criticised. Britain has a significant

The attacks on Iran by the United States and Israel are unraveling international law, the Geneva Conventions and the legitimacy of the United Nations.

The vast majority of workers in the United States pay income and payroll taxes on all of their earnings throughout the year. For most, this includes an

There are two wars taking place in Iran – one being fought by the United States, the other by Israel. For the U.S., the war against Iran is a war of

To expand a stockpile of both the useless and the mindlessly murderous in a military sense would seem to be a wasteful exercise best contemplated in the

The Algerian-born French novelist, Albert Camus, a pied-noir, began his existentialist classic, The Stranger, with the now memorable words, “Mother died

Antonio Lobo Antunes’s fiction challenged colonialism and fascist dictatorship. It is a necessary sentence that mainstream publications are incapable of

"To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger." - James Baldwin An aerial photo shows rectangular tracings etched into dirt, one

In Greek lore, Achilles was said to be the quintessential warrior - valiant and fierce. In dispatching Hector outside the walls of Troy, Achilles did so

The war of the Trump administration and Israel against Persia / Iran is bringing humanity ever closer to catastrophe. Both Israel and Iran are theocratic