On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury On a Rapidly Warming Planet, Home Is a Luxury
The importance of place and the draw of home is at odds with the future we have created for our planet.
Jun 8, 2023 / Jane Braxton Little
America Needs to Break Its Addiction to Global Intervention America Needs to Break Its Addiction to Global Intervention
Washington’s preoccupation with Ukraine only testifies to the impoverished state of American strategic thinking.
Jun 7, 2023 / Andrew J. Bacevich
Spain’s Left Is in Turmoil—and Now It’s Facing a Huge Electoral Test Spain’s Left Is in Turmoil—and Now It’s Facing a Huge Electoral Test
Now that Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called snap elections, we will see whether the left can set aside its divisions and block the far right from power.
Jun 6, 2023 / Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
Get Ready for AI Surveillance at the 2024 Paris Olympics Get Ready for AI Surveillance at the 2024 Paris Olympics
The Olympics don’t make authoritarian countries more democratic; they make democratic countries more authoritarian.
Jun 6, 2023 / Dave Zirin and Jules Boykoff
Country of Immigrants Country of Immigrants
The anti-immigrant rhetoric in the US is increasing exponentially.
Jun 6, 2023 / OppArt / Andrea Arroyo
The Convenient Myth of “Humane” Wars The Convenient Myth of “Humane” Wars
How America hides the human toll of its military machine.
Jun 5, 2023 / Norman Solomon
Two Decades Later, We Still Know Too Little About the Government’s Torture Program Two Decades Later, We Still Know Too Little About the Government’s Torture Program
Attempts to keep that blindfold in place in the name of “national security” have helped sustain darkness over light.
Jun 1, 2023 / Karen J. Greenberg
There’s Never a Debt Ceiling for the Military-Industrial Complex There’s Never a Debt Ceiling for the Military-Industrial Complex
While the Biden-McCarthy deal denies food to hungry people, it increases Pentagon spending by tens of billions.
May 31, 2023 / John Nichols
The Lost Worlds of Anton Shammas’s “Arabesques” The Lost Worlds of Anton Shammas’s “Arabesques”
A new translation of the 1988 novel documents not only the loss and exile created by the Nakba but also the loss and exile created by occupation.
May 30, 2023 / Books & the Arts / Raja Shehadeh