August 2025

Fear at the Gate

The Return of Woody Guthrie

Domestic Terrorism and Spectacularized Violence in Trump’s Warfare State

America’s Far Right and the Further Right: the Klan and a Coup in 1920s Lumber Country

Why Was The Dalai Lama At Jeffrey Epstein’s House?

Gaza Diary: Can You Imagine?

The Detached Cruelty of Air Power

Antarctica on Alert!

Russia’s Foreign Minister Cites NATO Expansion as Cause of Ukraine War

Essentials for Fighting ICE

Sergei Lavrov’s Sweatshirt and Putin/Trump’s Nostalgic Imaginations

Is ChatGPT Warning us of an Existential Threat that Generative AI Poses?

Employers Want to Trap You in Dead-End Jobs. Will Trump’s FTC Let Them?

Useful Expedient: Expelling Iran’s Ambassador to Australia

Fukushima Recovery Plagued with Setbacks

The Country of My Birth is Losing Its Democracy. It Can Happen Here, Too

Mike Huckabee’s Faith-Based Diplomacy

Let’s Fund Real Public Safety…Not ICE

The Art of Deflection: Trump Sent Troops Into Cities Not to Fight Crime But to Deflect From the Epstein Files

Trump Proposes 200 Percent Tariff on Imports from China, Xi Pushes for 300 Percent

Vinyl Afterlives

A Tale of Two Peace Summits (and No Goddamn Peace)

Civil Society is Playing a Vital Role in Defense of Human Rights

Architecture of Cities: Little Histories

Alive in the Moment

Self-Determination for Ukraine, Not a Deal Between Trump, Putin, and European Leaders

Gaza and the CBC: The Public Broadcaster Betrays Its Mandate

The NYT’s David Sanger Foolishly Likens Trump to Teddy Roosevelt

A Black Hole in Collective Memory: China and WWII

Dead States, Living Borders: Three Historical Cases of ‘State Revival’: Armenia, Vietnam, and Poland

The Business of Schools is Business

Building Trump’s Personal Army

Summer Report Card

Israel’s Killing of Journalists Follows a Pattern of Silencing Palestinian Media That Stretches Back to 1967

The Progressive Case for Tariffs

Banking on Racism? The Blue Jean “War” is Just Beginning

Jerome Powell’s Good News on Interest Rates Isn’t Necessarily. Good News

Do We Need a Platonic – Aristotelian Academy?

The Cost of War

Remembering the FBI’s Deceit and John Bolton’s Dangerous Career

Peacemaking in the Borderlands: A Reflection on the Farce of “Border Security”

How MAGA Uses Violence to Consolidate Power

Chicago On Guard: Trump’s Looming Fascist Invasion

What Australia Should do with US Submarines

Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom 

MAGA 2.0: Making China Great Again

The False “Good Fire” Paradigm

The Stockholm Accord and the Future of Sino-American Trade

Beside the Golden Door

The War on Truth: Why Palestinian Journalists Are Being Systematically Erased