Published on http://www.counterpunch.org About half of the U.S. is offended and repulsed by the existence of Donald J. Trump while the remaining half welcome him as a Messiah. Passions and o... Read more
Caroline Kitchener, who won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the fall of Roe v. Wade, has now turned her attention to the effects of Trump-era policies on the American family. [...]
The Secret Service said the driver was arrested and there was no longer a threat. President Trump was in the White House at the time, the agency said. [...]
The country has freed the man, one of two survivors of a U.S. military strike on a submersible vessel last week, defying President Trump’s claim that he would be held and prosecuted. [...]
President Trump has proposed construction of an arch in the style of the Arc de Triomphe in Washington in the lead-up to the nation’s 250th anniversary. [...]
A recurring theme in policy circles over the last three decades has been that young people should blame their economic problems on older people. The idea is that rather than [...]
The Gaza, the one that existed on the morning of October 7 is gone, decimated by months of saturation bombing, shelling, bulldozing and controlled demolitions. All that was familiar when [...]
The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions [...]
The most insidious privatization of the 21st century isn’t material—it’s moral. The right to define “goodness”, once born of collective struggle, has been seized by elites who trade in humanitarian [...]
If you’ve been following the federal courts’ scattershot decisions on Trump’s domestic troop movements, you may feel a bit spun around. One week democracy has a good day in some [...]