Donald Trump’s America is a scary place in significant part thanks to an unholy alliance of MAGA devotees who don’t believe in science and see

As Americans celebrate the 250th year of this young nation’s existence, perhaps we could take a moment to reflect upon where and what we were in 1776, and

Leaving aside the amen choir in hard-core MAGA circles, is there anyone out there who doesn’t think Donald Trump is bat-shit crazy? How much more evidence

Last month, I had the opportunity to give a talk at a US university as part of a conference where many of the speakers were dredged directly from the

Michael Jackson’s biopic Michael is a box-office phenomenon. It earned $217 million worldwide on opening weekend, the biggest debut ever for a biographical film. But the movie has almost nothing to say about multiple allegations of Jackson’s child sexual…

David Reid’s foreword to “Under the Perfect Sun: The San Diego Tourists Never See” by Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew, and Jim Miller California (Southern C. at

Journalist Arun Gupta returns to CounterPunch Radio to discuss the state of the left, antiwar politics, and much more. Arun talks to host Eric Draitser

No matter how much evidence accumulates, we cannot reason our way out of Trumpism if we keep misunderstanding what gives it power. The people most alarmed

Almost six decades ago in Chicago, during the rise of the Black Panther Party, Flint Taylor, a white, twenty-something law student, helped start the

Bullying — the use of force to coerce, tease, or threaten another person — is becoming an increasingly common phenomenon. While it can affect people of

Last week, the world watched as Donald Trump wrangled up his bro-squad of capitalist billionaires and chartered them across the world to China. We watched

Give Dangerous Donald credit. Coming off the floor of his 2020 defeat, under several federal and state indictments, a convicted felon, accused by over

A king is a study in absolutes. His word is final, the law of the land, and he is accountable to no one, possibly excepting God. Isn’t that a credible

When the establishment journalism of Nicholas Kristof of that most establishment of papers, The New York Times, draws the ire of a foreign regime, and an

Montanans are widely known for our individualism — and we hold fast to the tenet that everyone has the right to their own opinion and political

With a few weeks to go before the start of the Teamsters’ union convention in Las Vegas, a major push is on to deny Richard Hooker the five per cent of

On the surface, the affordability crisis that afflicts both tenants and prospective homebuyers in Hawai’i appears to resemble those of other

While eyes remain peeled on Israel’s increasingly violent and expanding campaign in Lebanon, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is

The postwar Beat generation – and the ensuing counterculture -- is remembered now, three-quarters of a century later, for one word, Howl, the title of

In what is being touted as the “Golden Age of School Choice,” the option that is most popular with American families—to fund and attend their local public