January 2025

Maybe Doom Isn’t Scary Enough

Modern Slavery Exists – and Must be Eradicated

The Audacity of America: A Canadian Perspective

The Blood Bag Economy

A Walk on the Border the Day After the National Emergency Declaration

Gaza and Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing of the Century Proposal

Trump’s Return to Office Order: the Opposite of DOGE?

Frankfurt Airport: A Special Kind of Loathing

In Memory of Nawar al-Awlaki, Age 8

The Abortion Wars Continue

Trump’s Taxes (Tariffs) on Imports and Sales Taxes on Stocks (FTT)

Groundhog Day Again

“Aliens” and “Animals”: Language of Hate Used by Trump and Others Can be Part of a Violent Design

The Post-Roe Legal and Surveillance Challenges of Reproductive Health Care

‘All They Will Call You Will Be Deportees’

DeepSeek: How a Small Chinese AI Company is Shaking up US Tech Heavyweights

The Meaning of Life in a Secular World

Garbage Rises, Until We Dump It

Anti-Nuclear War Activists Roll Out Counter Version of Doomsday Clock: The Peace Clock

The NYT’s Trumpeting of Chief of Staff Susie Wiles is Absurd

Gaza’s Unbreakable Resistance: A Historical Perspective on the War and Its Aftermath

We Have Entered the Era of Global Boiling: Marine Wildlife, Ecosystems, and Economies Are Being Devastated

The Shame of What We’ve Done

Palestine Through the Lens

Does a Roaring Twenties Boom Now Beckon?

Catastrophe in Palestine

Trump is Not a King: Moving Closer to Authoritarianism

There’s One Word for Trump’s Erratic Negotiating Strategy: “Stupid”

Social Housing Emerging in Cities Needs Local Govt Support

Detroit’s Death Spiral?

Trump’s Balance-of-Payments War on Mexico, and the Whole World

Abolish Climate Disasters

Fight the Rich

The Venetian Republic Offers Powerful Lessons to an American One in Need of Repair

To Thwart Trump’s Tyranny, the Media Must Cover Resistance by Civic Groups and Unions

Biden’s Pernicious Presidential Legacies

Emilia Perez and Cancel Culture

Trump’s Assault On Alaska’s Wildlands

A New Military Strategy of French Neocolonialism in Africa: Reorganizing Under the Cover Retreat

As Los Angeles Burns, Trump Plans to Shift Disaster Burden to States

Second World Summit for Social Development

Maduro Assumes a Third Term: Prospects and Problematics for Venezuela

The Limited Future of the Ceasefire in Gaza

Another Day

Canada’s Nazi Problem

The Palestine Exception: Film as a Form of Cultural Work that Facilitates Movement Building

From the Ashes

What Israel and the US Wrought in Gaza

Roaming Charges: Manifest Destiny’s Child

The Return of Donald the Destroyer