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?

New York City’s history is rich with examples of winning people’s movements and progressive change — and we’ve shared many of those stories on Laura

A Cascadian Declaration of Independence The New York Times has discovered Cascadia. Specifically, it has found news of an emerging Cascadia independence

It has long been the dream of the U.S. foreign policy elite to bring Japan and South Korea into a tighter alliance. Notoriously dismissive of history,

Way back in 1995 Bob Brown, the Republican president of the Montana Senate, called me into his office. He had co-sponsored a bill with a pro-logging

The 60-day extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran may lead to lasting peace or it may be over within a week, doomed by the

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance

Prologue A Greek friend from Canada, Dr. Nikos Chrystodoulou, sent me an article about an American company, Cambrian Nuclear, working with Athlos Energy,