Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Okay, “sickos,” to use our president’s terminology, are always a “no brainer” when it comes to finding motive for crime. They did it; they’re... Read more
The court ruled that Bill Essayli had been acting “unlawfully” as U.S. attorney in Los Angeles but that he could stay on as the office’s top deputy for now. [...]
Judges in the Ninth Circuit voted to have a larger panel reconsider a decision that could have allowed President Trump to use soldiers at the Portland, Ore., immigration building. [...]
The Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency, was established by Congress to advise the president on urban planning and historical preservation. [...]
The departures of the head of the Agriculture Department’s Food and Nutrition Service and a senior policy adviser spurred worries on Capitol Hill as food aid benefits could halt. [...]
The funding was part of a bipartisan measure that Congress approved in response to school shootings, but the Trump administration argued that the grants violated civil rights law. [...]
In the nine years since its founding in 2016, La France Insoumise (LFI) has become the leading left formation in France, with its current parliamentary representation at 71, ahead of [...]
The human cost of war is measured in lives lost and families displaced. However, a growing body of evidence from international organizations points to another, more enduring casualty: the environment. [...]
It is striking that many people feel the need to claim that Donald Trump has some coherent economic plan for the country. It’s understandable that Trump’s team likes to pretend [...]
On the horizon lies a confluence of catastrophe. One stream is the wealth-concentrating power of capitalism, leading to existential battles between a small group of oligarchs. They have the proven [...]
I first heard the expression “strategic incompetence” in El Salvador in December 1993. Along with my partner and two friends, I’d been recruited to do some electoral training there. We [...]