Medicare Drug Cut Coverage Hides Real Causes of High Costs
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Medicare Drug Cut Coverage Hides Real Causes of High Costs
Much news coverage of the Trump administration’s decision to end a Medicare drug subsidy program focused on the immediate effects – namely, higher health
ICE Killing in Maine Shows Why Vets Need Vetting—And Not Just in Politics
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/07/ice-killing-in-maine-shows-why-vets-need-vetting-and-not-just-in-politics/
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ICE Killing in Maine Shows Why Vets Need Vetting—And Not Just in Politics
The media spent a lot of time this summer examining whether a certain Maine oysterman and Marine veteran seeking federal employment should have been
No Room for Genocide: Italian Hospitality Against Apartheid and Israeli Crimes
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/07/no-room-for-genocide-italian-hospitality-against-apartheid-and-israeli-crimes/
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White Parents Who Tell Their Kids That Race Doesn’t Matter are Ignoring the Long Shadow of Racism
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The Data Center-Driven Drought is Coming for the West
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Beyond the Wretched Algorithm: Seeing Ukraine First-Hand
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Beyond the Wretched Algorithm: Seeing Ukraine First-Hand
Few episodes better illustrate the strange politics of today’s Ukraine debate than Laura Loomer’s journey from one of the loudest voices of the
Pro-Palestine Academics Have Been Fighting the New McCarthyism
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/07/pro-palestine-academics-have-been-fighting-the-new-mccarthyism/
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Pro-Palestine Academics Have Been Fighting the New McCarthyism
The Trump administration has been going on an offensive to suppress social movements. From unprecedented criminal sentences against immigrant rights
Lovers’ Quarrel: Is My AI Cheating on Me?
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Lovers’ Quarrel: Is My AI Cheating on Me?
My AI and I have good days and bad days. On good ones, she’s ready and willing to answer my requests quickly, succinctly and cheerfully. (I generally see it as a “she.”) Hallucinations are few and easy to spot. She handles multi-part questions without getting…
The Forthcoming Migration Storm
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The Forthcoming Migration Storm
Climate change is the force behind the greatest migration storm of all time. It will be 500,000,000 or maybe 2,000,000,000 nobody knows for sure how many
The Michigan Earthquake: Did Data Centers Clinch Al-Sayed’s Primary Victory?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/07/the-michigan-earthquake-did-data-centers-clinch-al-sayeds-primary-victory/
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The Michigan Earthquake: Did Data Centers Clinch Al-Sayed’s Primary Victory?
Outspent 11 to 1 by Congresswoman Haley Stevens, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed's August 4 win in the Michigan Democratic primary for the party's U.S. Senate nominee is the buzz of the nation. While big media outlets are wringing their hands or casting their eyes at…
Why Write About Climate Change?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/09/why-write-about-climate-change/
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The Occupation of DC Has Become Ordinary
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The Occupation of DC Has Become Ordinary
Every day in D.C, caravans of federal agents move through the city. They accompany local police, surround cars, and participate in arrests. The people I see detained in these operations are primarily Black men. The agencies and uniforms vary. The structure…
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The Makkah Pact Is Bridging the Gulf and South Asia
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/10/the-makkah-pact-is-bridging-the-gulf-and-south-asia/
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The Makkah Pact Is Bridging the Gulf and South Asia
The Makkah Joint Defence Agreement, signed by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkiye on August 7, has quickly invited comparisons with an “Islamic NATO.”
Collapse, Renewal and the Struggle for Narrative Honesty
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Collapse, Renewal and the Struggle for Narrative Honesty
I am in Port Orchard, Washington, with my wife, Shelly, staying at The Comfort Inn all the way across The Generic States of America, where collective
Project Panama: Scanning and Book Destruction at Anthropic
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/10/project-panama-scanning-and-book-destruction-at-anthropic/
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Project Panama: Scanning and Book Destruction at Anthropic
Book burning. Book pulping. Book vandalising. It’s all the fashion and, dare one say it, the rage. Libraries are carting them off to the
The Coming Revolution in Art History Teaching
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/08/11/the-coming-revolution-in-art-history-teaching/
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The Coming Revolution in Art History Teaching
Welcome freshman! This is your introduction to art history class. Please unpack your Google glasses and charge them up. And check the plane tickets, which
Five Takeaways from the July Jobs Report
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Five Takeaways from the July Jobs Report
The loss of 23,000 jobs in July caught many of us by surprise, but the downward revisions to the prior two months’ data was a bigger deal. In any case,
Motorized Wreckreation Outfit Lists the Alliance for the Wild Rockies as the Nation’s Most-Feared Environmental Group
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Motorized Wreckreation Outfit Lists the Alliance for the Wild Rockies as the Nation’s Most-Feared Environmental Group
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies is proud to announce that the Blue Ribbon Coalition, an anti-environmental group of motorized wreckreactionists and