January 2026

On Seeing the Photo of Nicolás Maduro Aboard the U.S.S. Iwo Jima

Sleepless Again: Or What the World of Yesterday Says About Trump’s Attack on Venezuela and the World of Today

The Minnesota Day Care Fraud Story: Trump Says Fraud is a Big Problem When Black People Do It

Trump, Venezuela and the Roosevelt Corollary

Naked Imperialism in Venezuela

Mud, Poetry and Political Imagination

The Moral Bankruptcy of the West Can No Longer Be Ignored

The (Over)Reach Of Gangster Imperium, from Venezuela to Gaza

Venal Reactions: US Allies Validate Maduro’s Abduction

How This Federal Legislation Would Save Veterans’ Lives

The Perilous Shift in Weapons Sales to Taiwan

West Coast Levee Failures Show Growing Risks From America’s Aging Flood Defenses

Venezuela and Congress’s Duty to Act

The Dream Factory for Sale: $72 Billion

Roaming Charges: Preliminary Notes on a Kidnapping

“We’re Going to Run the Country:” Preparing an Illegal Occupation in Venezuela

The Arctic–Greenland–Florida Conga

Could Venezuela Happen in Brazil?

Prominent Think Tank Joins Media in Endorsing Trump’s Foreign Policy

Stop Slandering Me, Mr. Trump

American Imperialism and the Mad Fantasies of Donald Trump

Restoring the Nobel Peace Prize to Its Peace-Promotion Vocation

Fraud, Drugs, and Hope for 2026

Secessionist Pantomime: Israel Recognises Somaliland

2026: The Year We Say ‘Enough is Enough’

Does Legalization of Sex Work Create Trafficking and Sex Tourism?

What Planet Are We On?

The Crisis of British Democracy

From Minarets to City Hall

Trump’s Unprovoked Attack on Venezuela and International Law

Manufacturing Nuclear Consent

Report from Caracas: The US Kidnaps President Nicolás Maduro, but Venezuela Fights Back and Maintains Its Revolution

The US Attacks Venezuela and Seizes It President

Monroe Doctrine: the Bad Neighbor Returns

Trump’s Contempt for the Constitution

US Starts 2026 by Bombing Venezuela and Kidnapping Its President, Setting a Tone of Imperialist Violence for the Year

With the Attack on Venezuela, Trump Has Put the Death of International Law in Plain Sight

Trump’s Venezuelan Coup: Criminal Attacks by a Criminal Empire

The Don-roe Doctrine in Action: Trump’s Gangster Intervention in Venezuela

Brazil’s President Lula condemns US Bombing and Kidnapping in Venezuela

The US Government is Not the Daddy of US Oil Companies

A Predawn Op in Latin America? The US has Been Here Before, But the Seizure of Venezuela’s Maduro is Still Unprecedented

Venezuela’s Communes: Socialism of the Twenty-First Century

American Pogrom: the Year in ICE Abductions

Portraits by the Mysterious “Master I.S.”:  An Art History Detective Story

Oligarchy XIV: Thoughts on the Anarchism of Dorothy Day

Meditations on the Loss of a Voice

Bari Weiss Pulls 60 Minutes’ Report on Trump Outsourcing Torture to El Salvador’s CECOT Prison

Looking Beyond the 2026 Midterms: Slogans Are Not a Strategy

The Russian Idée Fixe