August 2018

American Militarism, a Bi-Partisan Affair

Trump’s Fake Boom: Growing Despair Amidst Insecure Economic Recovery 

Another Scandal in the All-Male Priesthood

The Decade of a Rising China: 10 Years After the Financial Crisis

The Atlas Network Against Latin America

John McCain’s Imperial Complex

Strange Affinity: How David Foster Wallace Became Enamored With John McCain

1968: I Certainly Wasn’t the Whole World, But I was Watching

Trump Deathwatch, the Latest Edition 

In the Year of the Pig: the Real Vietnam War Heroes

Fifteen Ways the Democrats Can Lose the November Elections

Revisiting the Spirit of 1968

Asia’s Shifting Alliances

Literature Can Displace Anthropology

Killing for Coal (Literally)

Taxpayers are Footing the Bill for Sky-High CEO Pay

Iraq Should be a Much Bigger Part of McCain’s Legacy Than “Civility”

The Economy as a Game of Monopoly

Our Economy is More Concentrated Than Ever

Redeveloping Historical Awareness on Kashmir

School Workers: What Did Our Unions Do on Our Summer Vacation?

The Free Press, the Free Market and the Tooth Fairy

Brexit: Stop the Sabotage

Grappling With the Racism of the DSA’s Founders

A Disingenuous Congressional Election Ahead

What Future Awaits the Babies of 2018?

Republican Candidates are Paying a Fossil Fuels Conglomerate for Voter Data Mining

The Tip of the Radiation Disaster Iceberg

Why McCain Lost: a Flashback

A Plague on Both Their Houses

“Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior:” Commodity Fetishism, Security, and Social Media

Catholic Support for War: Another Child Abuse Scandal

The Mourning of McCain

New Power: “Purpose” as Key Force Multiplier in a World on Fire

Revised NAFTA Shows Every Sign of Being Another Trump Scam

The Brexit “Who Dunnit?”

Psychological Factors for War

The Irishmen Who Fought in the Last Great Battle Against Spanish Fascism

No More Forgotten Wars: End US Support for Saudi Coalition War Crimes in Yemen

A Horrorshow of Class Politics

What Did Abbas Just Say?

A Tale of Two Tweets: Left Politicians’ Responses to McCain’s Death Show Promise and Peril of Electing Socialists to Office

Verdi’s Mass for the Dead: 90 Minutes of Heavenly and Infernal Glory

The Washington Post’s Campaign to Keep a Republican in the Maryland Governor’s Office

Aretha’s Furs and PETA’s White Privilege

McCain, Confederate

The Fire Island Raids, 50 Years Later

John McCain, the Unrepentant Warrior

Ambushing Pope Francis: the Accusations of Cardinal Viganò

Please Speak Ill of the Dead