July 2016

Breaking News: Melania Trump’s Original Speech Was Even Worse

The Superpowers Are Violent Powers

The Political Disintegration of France: Hollande’s Anti-Terrorist Policy in Tatters After Nice

The Time is Now: To Defeat Both Trump and Clintonian Neoliberalism

Obama Calls for Peace and Comity at Home, But Favors Wars and Killer Drones Abroad

Can Corbyn Survive? The Labour Party and the Electoral Turn

Turkey: Echoes of July 2013, Egypt

Nice: Entering the Gray Zone

Banning and Banishing: the Nonsense About Muslims

9/11: 28 Pages Later

US-NATO Border Confrontation with Russia: Risking Nuclear War

Making a Mockery of International Law: the Arbitral Tribunal on the South China Sea Prepares the Way for War

Bern Out: Beyond Cowardly Lion Leftism

“Close Your Hearts to Pity”: a Security State Critic Embraces Total War

Can Peace Ever Overtake the Violence in Kashmir?

If You Don’t Support Gun Control, Then You Don’t Support the Police

From Haircuts to Diplomacy

Anybody But Trump or Clinton: Dispatch From Cleveland

Late Night Thoughts on Melania Trump’s Speech

Andrew Smolski – Episode 49

China’s Bad Day in Court

Donald Trump and the Revolt of the Proles

The Post-Dallas Kumbaya Window Begins to Close

Many States Out of Step with the Constitution on the Use of Force by Police

How to Fix the Broken Relationship Between the People and the Police

The Indian Point Nukes: a Disaster Waiting to Happen

American Presidential Politics is a Small, Dumb Network Sit-Com in a World of 1000 Channels

Policing Crisis After Baton Rouge, Minneapolis, and Dallas

Democratic Multiculturalism vs. State Violence in Turkey: an Interview with Former Mayor Abdullah Demirbas

Military Coups, Turkey and Flimsy Democracy

Bill Gates’ Silver-Bullet Misfiring at the Mandela Memorial Lecture

Nice and the Mathematics of Killing

Why Black Lives Matter Won’t Go Away: a Primer on Systemic Racism in America

Why I Am a Jerk: Micah Johnson, Josh Marshall, and Charles Pierce

Hello and Goodbye Turkey

Healing the Breach: Remarks Honoring the Life of Alton Sterling

Went Back to Ohio But My Pretty Countryside Had Been Paved Down the Middle

Erdogan is Using This Failed Coup to Get Rid of the Last Vestiges of Secular Turkey

The Attempted Coup in Turkey: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Teflon Sultan

Resurrect Humanity!

Dirty Obama Secrets: From Warsaw to Dallas and Baton Rouge

Why We Need Black Anger

The “Fundamentalism” in Police Operations

Killer Cops, Deranged Veterans and Pokémon Go: Welcome to America!

Review: William E. Jones’s “True Homosexual Experiences”

The Dilemmas of Lesser-Evilism in Two Countries

Bernie Sanders’ Unconscionable Compensation to Consultants for Ad Buys

How This Became the Era of the Gunman

The Infinite Sadness of Syria

Is the Party Over for Republicans?