Published on http://www.counterpunch.org Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. ― Donald Trump Caught as we are at a deeply polarized moment, so intensely consum... Read more
The president has been unhappy with pushback from Republican senators and a resistance to abandoning the filibuster to pass new voting restrictions. [...]
Tesla, Sunrun and Renew Home plan to tap solar panels, batteries, thermostats and other devices installed in millions of homes to meet the energy demands of artificial intelligence. [...]
Three Democrats who have been outspoken in their criticism of Israel won primaries in New York on Tuesday, signaling their party’s new skepticism of the country and its actions. [...]
Representative April McClain Delaney defeated David Trone, who lent himself $25 million in his unsuccessful bid to oust the woman who had succeeded him in the House. [...]
The water in my bath had gone lukewarm before I noticed. The book was balanced on my chest. The traffic outside the window had disappeared. Even the condensation spreading across [...]
The White House has long functioned as a site of state ritual. But traditionally, those rituals—press briefings, public ceremonies, even contentious protests beyond its gates—are tethered, at least aspirationally, to [...]
I was not an Alan Greenspan fan, but I will give him some serious credit on his passing. I’ll also give him serious blame for missing two huge bubbles, the [...]
The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the modern world. For more than a century, authoritarian ideologies [...]
In late October, I published an interview with political scientist, Dr. Benjamin Peters, whose work focuses on peace (full bio at the end). Eight months later, the systematic destruction of [...]