May 2017

A Concrete Agenda for Progressives

“Corporate Free” Candidates Move Up

The Dark Heart of California’s Water Politics

Lessons From a Modern Greek Tragedy

Australia-as-Concierge: the Need for a Change of Occupation

Presidential Elections in Iran and the Outcomes

Venezuela Needs Helping Hand, Not a Hammer Blow 

When Peace is a Commodity: Trump in the Middle East

Never Ending Injustice for Pinar Selek

The NRA: the Dragon in Our Midst

Powder Keg: Manchester Terror Attack Could Lead to Yet Another Resurgence in Nationalist Hate

Beyond Neoliberal Identity Politics

This Land is Your Land, Except If You’re a Wild Horse Advocate

Towards the Corbyn Doctrine

I’m a Human and I’m a Cartoon

The Most Dangerous Spy You’ve Never Heard Of: Ana Belén Montes

Trump in Riyadh: an Arab NATO Against Syria and Iran

A Gathering of Autocrats: Trump Puts US on Sunni Muslim Side of Bitter Sectarian War with Shias

Can Trump Salvage His Presidency in Syria’s War?

Macron, Old World President

The European Left and the Greek Tragedy

Al-Awamiya: City of Resistance

“Risk”: a Sad Comedown for Laura Poitras

Devos Takes Out Her Hatchet

Rosenstein and Mueller: the Regime Change Tag-Team

Manchester Attacks: What Price Hypocrisy?

The Public Or The Agrochemical Industry: Who Does The European Chemicals Agency Serve?

Trump and the Resurgence of Colonial Racism

Getting Full Employment: the Fake Way and the Right Way 

In Defense of Tulsi Gabbard

Trump’s Extravagant Saudi Trip Distracts from His Crisis at Home

Jeff Sessions, Jesus Christ and the Return of Reefer Madness

Julian Assange, Sweden, and Continuing Battles

Red Terror: Anti-Corbynism and Double Standards

I’m a Trump Guy, So What?

Gig Economy or Odd Jobs: What May Seem Trendy to Privileged City Dwellers and Suburbanites is as Old as Poverty

The Normalizing of Authoritarianism in America

Beyond Liberal Pieties: the Radical Challenge for Journalism

All Power to the Banks! The Winners-Take-All Regime of Emmanuel Macron

Somalia’s Worsening Drought: Blowback From US Policy

Hypocrisy and Condescension: Trump’s Speech to the Middle East

Police Claimed Black Man Who Died in Custody Was Faking It

Radical Love

Watergate II? A Scenario for Trump’s Resignation

War No More

A Culture of Narcissism, a Politics of Personality

Is Alabama Hiding Evidence It Tortured Two of Its Citizens?

Slavery Now: Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia

Killing the Monseñor

Rolling Back Democracy