What is democracy? Few have answered this question with more needed might than German-American Jewish political theorist and philosopher Hannah Arendt.

The United States is going through a period of gloom and doom. Confidence in its institutions has fallen, politics is deeply polarized, and talk of

Note: The following is a modified version of an address given by Greg King in Jenner, California on June 12, 2026 During the mid-19th century, Henry David

His name is all over Duke, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Chicago. It’s on the National Archives, the National Zoo, and the Library of Congress.

The growing attachment to flattery cannot be separated from the rise of sycophancy as a political strategy and a form of propaganda. The Trump Administration’s content farm invokes this priming using the same generative models that power people’s AI companions.…

According to the National Geographic Society: “The human footprint is one of the most destructive forces in Earth's history, fundamentally altering the

Award-winning journalist and author Barrett Brown returns to CounterPunch Radio to discuss the critical period before 2016 when online activism emerged,

One recent early evening, airstrikes hit southern Lebanon. In the hours that followed, videos purportedly showing this circulated on TikTok, Telegram and

Joelyn and I talked through the bars on the stall windows as we shoveled manure into large buckets. We had gotten to know each other one Saturday morning

If it's June, then it must be Pride and straight people everywhere are celebrating how far you've come. You know, out of the closets and onto MTV. But

The mainstream media has no problem guesstimating the deaths (500,000) from the Assad Dictatorship’s Civil War in Syria, nor the estimated deaths in the

The FIFA World Cup is one of the few global events whose legitimacy does not derive from the power, wealth, or political influence of its participants,

State regulators regained the power to conduct warrantless, high-stakes tactical inspections of hemp sellers after a key court ruling dismantled

Another week, another court ruling that the Trump administration illegally withheld Congressionally appropriated funding from communities. This time, the

President Trump has made historically steep cuts to SNAP, Medicaid, and other programs, claiming we can’t afford them. Yet at the same time he and his

The 2026 FIFA World Cup has begun on American soil, the first time the United States has hosted the tournament in 32 years. In exchange for the privilege

When trying to figure out what's going on in the Middle East in general and the war in Iran in particular, I have relied quite a lot upon the works of

This week was the first meeting under new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh of the Federal Reserve Board’s Open Market Committee (FOMC). Warsh has promised to

Europe likes to see itself as a moral power. From Brussels to Strasbourg, European leaders regularly invoke human rights, international law and democratic

Sarah Swift of the Menwith Hill Accountability Campaign in Britain says: “Now is the time to call for Independence From America.” What prompted this call?