Woody Guthrie in his song “Pretty Boy Floyd,“ wrote the line: ”Some men rob you with a sixgun, some with a fountain pen.” If he were living and singing

Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them,

The Republicans seem to hope that most people have no knowledge or memory of the insurance market before Obama pushed the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

The brittle ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas has, for the moment, brought an end to the relentless bloodshed. More than two million residents of

President Trump recently followed through on his threat to use the federal government shutdown as an occasion to fire government workers on a mass scale.

The steel-plate floors “absorb heat and radiate it to no end,” says Keenan Bell, explaining why temperatures in parts of the Bridgestone tire plant in Des

This fall, Avi Schiffman, founder of the AI startup Friend.com, boasted on X about his company’s new advertising blitz, claiming it was the “Largest NYC

The mood in the Caribbean grows increasingly tense, as the United States intensifies its military threats. Beneath the deceptive shroud of the “war on

Most people are surprised to learn government shutdowns, and the ensuing fingerpointing, haven’t always been a mainstay of American politics. To

Like James Baldwin, thought social revolution required a reckoning of all relationships, including the individual’s relationship to herself....: ‘If our

In his rambling address to 800 Flag officers of the U.S. military, President Trump didn’t get his MAGA boost from his audience. The 800 weren’t an

Palestinians under Israel’s 24/7 aerial bombings and food, fuel, medicine, and water obstructions after the Hamas attacks on settlers of October 7, 2023,

“Brother, I am American. You are twisting my arm.” — Man shouts “I am American” while ICE agents detain him Masked gunmen. Tasers. Tear gas. Pepper spray.

Climate change has a new partner in its quest to alter life as we know it: Nuclear, the power buzzword for the AI Holy Grail of human submission to

Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket whisks us way back to 1932 amid shantytowns and lindy-hopping in the end times of prohibition as fascist creeps creep into

“The Children of MAGA” Cambridge Dictionary online defines the meaning of the phrase “pearl clutching” as follows: “a shocked reaction in which you show

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump threatened to unleash the armed forces on more American cities during a rambling address to top military brass. He told the hundreds of generals and admirals gathered to hear him that some of them would be called…

On October 7, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee. What should have been a routine hearing descended into a theatrical display of personal attacks, interruptions, and challenges to the senators’ authority. What was meant…

The authoritarian leader first takes control of the nation’s power ministries – Justice, the Secret Police (FBI), the Military, and the Intelligence apparatus. Then he/she, in what is referred to as “authoritarian consolidation,” moves to control the lower…

Orchestrated brutality reflected not only Miller’s ideology but also his personality. Even his former colleagues described him as insufferable, “rude, arrogant, and consumed by a sense of his own superiority,” as Yahoo News reported. On Capitol Hill, he was…