August 2016

Kerry’s Brazil Meeting: Showing Support for an Illegitimate Government

Black Americans and Police State Fascism

Uncle “Sham” Says Dance, And the Band Played On

It’s the Power, Stupid

Catastrophe in Afghanistan: Where Next for NATO?

Surveillance Isn’t Colorblind

Grand Guignol: No Tears for the World

The Crack Up: Is the Two-Party System Splintering?

Clintonites Feign Outrage at Threats of Violence

Brexit and the German Connection

Reflections on #Hook25th: Both Clinton and Trump’s Bases Long for Never-Never Land

Facing Down the Panopticon

Chicago ’68

Of Republicrats and Third Parties

The Slow Poisoning of Health and the Environment

Bungling the Australian Census

Political Word Games

Banning Paralympic Athletes to Bash Russia

More Murder, Arrests and Torture: Israeli Response to Uprising in Palestine

Do Skill and School Deficits Explain Why We Don’t Have Enough Good Jobs?

The Lawyer as Hero

Hunger and Food Waste in a World of Plenty

Government Fears Chelsea Manning Disclosures May Lead to Indictments for War Crimes

The System is Rigged (Only Not in the Way Trump Thinks)

The Nuclear Breakfast Menu

L’Affaire de l’Autobus

Tribute to Fidel Castro on His 90th Birthday

New Era of Global Collective Psychosis

Canadian Greens vs US Greens

An Urgent History Lesson in Diplomacy with Russia

Roaming Charges: the Return of Assassination Politics

One City is Following Through on Protests of Confederate Monuments

The Day After Election Day

Olympic Beats and the Soundtracks of Solipsism

Hollywood Mythology: How White Men Save the World

Review: Adrien Bosc’s “Constellation”

Trump Apologizes, Wins Over Critics

Colombia: In the Final Stage Before Peace

The Future Belongs to the Optimists

Finally: the Eruption of the Clinton Foundation Scandal

Deepwater Horizon

Our Make-Believe Military Suits Our Make-Believe Wars

How the Obama Administration Encouraged the Rise of Islamic State

Catching Utopia: the Radical Potential of Pokémon Go

Will Trump Fire Himself?

The Dutch Cure

Of War Resisters Then and Now

Outrage in the Inland Empire: the Slaughter of the Profanity Wolf Pack

Assassination Talk, the Banality of Evil, and the Paranoid State of American Politics

Has Trump Been Reading Kissinger?