The Common Root of Our Multiple Crises The world is confronted by a boggling array of crises, testing the limits of human comprehension, let alone hope.

“You can't crush ideas by suppressing them.  You can crush them by ignoring them.  By refusing to think, refusing to change.  And that's precisely what

I’m currently working from the roof of the Austin Public Library, or at least I was working until I got distracted and started writing this instead. And

More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the

Can anything make farmers turn away from Trump? How rightwing populism has gripped rural areas, especially among farmers, is evidenced by the results from

A respected human rights activist has spoken repeatedly against the US-Israeli aggression on Iran. She recognizes the illegality of the war and does not

Jerome Powell most likely has his last meeting as Fed Chair this week. Kevin Warsh, Trump’s pick, will likely have been approved as chair by the Senate in

In the run-up to the 2024 election, Donald Trump promised, “We will close the border. We will stop the invasion of illegals into our country.” A year

In the early hours of April 30, 2026, Israeli forces committed an act of piracy in international waters off the coast of Crete — more than 1,000

It’s great that wealthy Democratic Party celebrities like Bette Midler and Bruce Springsteen dislike the deranged fascist lunatic atop the world’s most

Having seen Trump shuffle spasmodically to the Village People’s Y.M.C.A., I think we can rule out dancing as the motivation to construct a $400 million,

Darkology, written by Princeton historian Rhae Lynn Barnes, is a comprehensive, jaw-dropping survey of the grotesqueries known as minstrelsy and blackface. The book explodes the comforting notion that the minstrel show was a long-ago curiosity, an outdated…

“A terrifying Compound Drought is ruthlessly erasing the water supply on U.S. soil right now, and the mainstream media is entirely missing the true

Xavier Becerra recently told Californians that we need to think about the future of humanity. He said it with conviction. He said it with urgency. He said

Let’s start with the good news. As of 2025, coal is no longer the dominant energy source worldwide. It’s been at the top for over 100 years, but it’s been

Donald Trump as an individual will not define American politics forever. But MAGA may outlast him. Trump has had a transformative influence in the United States and beyond. The question is whether American politics will move past Trump, who is now 80 years…

On this episode of Counterpunch Radio, Rebecca Maria Goldschmidt speaks with Dr. Shahd Abusalama, Palestinian academic, writer, and artist, born and

I have been reading Joseph Roth at a plastic table in front of a bar in the Plaza Mayor of a small town in Extremadura whose name, should I give it, would

In November 1969, journalist Seymour Hersh, with the help of whistleblower Ronald Ridenhour, stunned a broad swath of the public by managing to get the