The International Monetary Fund just released its growth projections for 2025, as well as the next five years. It’s not a very good picture for Donald

That great slumbering beast, the Columbia University alumni, has finally awakened. Over 4,000 graduates from all the many schools of the institution,

As President Donald Trump's second term is about to hit the wall of 100 days, one critique has grown louder: his inconsistency. Critics point to his

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to Mike Prysner about the military, Pete Hegseth's attacks on Black troops, anti-war resistance, and more. Mike Prysner is a writer and producer of The Empire Files. Since returning…

At his inauguration in January, President Trump suggested that his greatest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and uniter. Many Americans voted for the

My camera merely dreams: A frozen pulse as if in mid-pen motion: Photographer Bill Brandt snaps poet Robert Graves: A satisfying cacophonic camera shutter

I was not intending to write about the Oscars this year as I usually do, in some shape or form, but in catching up with the nominees I began to see a

Set in the hills of the West Bank, The Teacher, written and directed by British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi, tells the riveting story of Bassem

Think of San Francisco artists and you’re likely to think of Ruth Asawa, whose work is currently on exhibit at SFMOMA, and Wayne Thieibaud, who had his

Racial and social justice remains a cornerstone of liberal philosophy and activism. As we live through another terrifying four years with President Trump

With America’s constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s

Billions of animals are killed each year to feed an unsustainable demand for meat. Lab-grown meat—also known as cultured, cultivated, cell-based, or clean

In Serbia—perhaps the last corner of the world where Brussels' viceroys, now impotent even within the EU itself, are still inexplicably

I recall seeing a sign in a yard in my small hometown of around 12,000 residents. “No matter where you are from,” it said, “we’re glad you are our

This is the seventeeth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the

Many of us start our morning with a cup of coffee (or several). It’s easy to take for granted. But where does it come from? Ethiopia is the birthplace of

The term “economy” is often used as a catch-all, but the way it’s discussed by politicians and pundits is typically misleading. We frequently hear that

It’s never happened before: the election of an American Pope.  Normally, Pope’s are chosen from the ranks of Italian cardinals and bishops – and indeed,

We should have seen it coming – pope Francis had been sick, old and frail for some time. But still his death was a shock, reminding those who care of the

After a long period of declining health which saw an increasingly debilitated Francis struggling to hold onto life, it was the demonic visitation of US