Published on http://www.counterpunch.org It’s probably fair in every quarter to say that our root problem right now is being able to see where problems are, which views of problems are right... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “The Map is not the territory.” – Borges “It is not down on any map; true places never are.” – Melville A fractal state of the psyche is mirrored in... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org The Warming Planet “The United Nations released an exceptionally bleak report today, which warns that, at the current pace of greenhouse gas emission... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “And here, sitting upon London stone, I charge and command that, of the city’s cost, the pissing-conduit run nothing but claret wine this first year... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “My own view is that however ferocious the current hour feels, American history tells us that the people, when properly engaged in politics, have alw... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org “Imagine it is the spring of 2019. A bottom-feeding website, perhaps tied to Russia, “surfaces” video…” Henry J. Farrell and Rick Perstein, “Our Hack... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ A reluctance by Liberals since the Reagan administration to target the wealth divide and the economics that creates it can be traced to its own inve... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “[I]f thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee.” — Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Over many years teaching and writi... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ “I speak of this incontestable truth: the social world is certainly the work of men; and it follows that one can and should find its principl... Read more
Published on http://www.counterpunch.org/ I wonder if the battle lines drawn over Trump are deep into personalities to the point that we are missing the movement of intellectual history goin... Read more
A decision on the state’s new congressional map will affect five House seats and could help determine control of the chamber next year. [...]
As partisan battles rage and courts wrangle proposals, the relentless pace of the calendar will force states to act — or land in murky legal ground. [...]
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The Trump administration has been trying to repair the damage from the detention of hundreds of South Koreans in an immigration raid in Georgia. [...]
The agency’s top vaccine regulator said that a review had found that the children were likely to have died “because of” the shots. But public health experts want to examine the data. [...]
