July 2020

Laos Has Tackled COVID-19, But It Is Drowning in Debt to International Finance

Time’s Up Israel: Get Your Knee Off Palestine’s Neck

Fair Tax Solutions for Cities Facing Covid-19 Budget Crises

It’s Going to be a Long, Hard Recession

The Inertia Bugaboo

This is No Way to Live

Forging Greater Israel: Annexation by Any Other Name

Bolton’s Book is Not the “Bomb” as Advertised

Hagia Sophia and the Catastrophe of Symbolism

The Yeezy Effect: Kanye West Joins the Presidential Race

Propaganda Beyond Trump

Audacity and Hope in the Summer of Discontent

‘Cancel Culture’ Cannot Erase a Strong Argument

Jack Charlton, Soccer and Ireland’s Working Class

Boris Johnson’s “Blundering Brilliance”…Now Only the Blundering Remains

Minneapolis Ballot Measure to Dismantle the Police Will Test the Strength of Our Movement

Mother Goose in the End Times

What’s Behind Brazil’s COVID-19 Disaster?

BRINKS

Should We Cancel “Cancel Culture”?

What was lost when Ringling Bros. Left the Circus

California Regulators Approve 12 New Permits for Chevron to Frack in Kern County

Boris Johnson Should not be Making New Global Enemies When His Country is in a Shambles

Shrinking Wilderness in the Gallatin Range

Mosques, Museums and Politics: the Fate of Hagia Sophia

Soft Power: Americans in Its Grip at Home Must Face the Mischief It Wields by BNimri Aziz July 11/2020

The Global Rushmore of Autocrats

Lift From the Bottom? Yes.

Woodrow Wilson’s Racism: the Basis For His Support of Zionism

Propaganda on Government Action and Inequality from David Leonhardt

Pillar of Sand in Okinawa

The Crackdown on Foreign Students

Canceling the Cancel Culture: Enriching Discourse or Dumbing it Down?

Sorry, the Chicago Blackhawks Need to Change Their Name and Logo

‘Cancel Culture’ Letter is About Stifling Free Speech, Not Protecting It

The Coronavirus Seal: Victoria’s Borders Close

Power, Knowledge and Virtue

The Russiagate Spectacle: Season 2?

Remembering the Nuclear Freeze Movement and Its Futility

On Coronavirus and the Anti-Police-Brutality Uprising

Digital Trade Rules: a Disastrous New Constitution for the Global Economy Written by and for Big Tech

Oil Comes First in Peru, Not Coronavirus Danger, Not Indigenous Rights

Why the 3rd Quarter US Economic ‘Rebound’ Will Falter

Will the Biden-Sanders Economic Task Force Rattle the Rich?

The Enduring Case for Demanding Trump’s Resignation

Trump’s Stance on Foreign College Students Digs US Economic Hole Even Deeper

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Perry Mason Moment

The Stonewall Blues (Still Dreaming of a Queer Nation)

Edward Sanders: Poetic Pacifist Up Next

Getting Back to Socialist Principles: Honneth’s Recipe