“The struggle against climate change is over” if Donald Trump wins again, tweeted Bernie Sanders before Election Day 2024. Presumably our fate is now sealed. The conclusion is understandable. On our current course, we’re already...
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National news is abuzz with Jay Bhattacharya’s nomination to director of the National Institutes of Health — the world’s preeminent health research agency with a $48 billion budget. Four years ago, Bhattacharya was widely denounced...
Before Claud Cockburn first entered the Times of London premises in 1929, he had contributed to its Berlin bureau, which gave him some idea of what to expect. But even so, he thought it rather...
Ultranationalist independent Călin Georgescu has qualified for Romania’s presidential runoff after topping Sunday’s first round with a surprise 23 percent score. While a recount may yet tip the balance, in the final ballot on December...
No one in Smile or its sequel, Smile 2, has figured out how to beat the monster. This is a skinless, meaty, human-ish parasite in search of hosts. It drives its victims to suicide by...
The story of the Dunnes Stores strike, when it’s told, often begins on July 19, 1984, with a woman approaching a supermarket till on Dublin’s Henry Street. Mary Manning, the twenty-one-year-old sitting behind the till,...
Late Monday night, US president-elect Donald Trump used his Truth Social platform to announce he would impose across-the-board 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico on day one of his new administration. Trump said he would leave...
Donald Trump won the US presidential election in resounding fashion, winning the electoral college and Hillary Clinton’s 2016 consolation prize, the popular vote, by a significant margin. The Republicans have maintained control of the House...
Early on a cold, gray morning twenty-five years ago this month, a modest procession of about eighty left a church in downtown Seattle heading for the nearby convention center. They walked quietly, each lost in...
As the United States — and the world — prepares for another Trump administration, revisiting the question of whether Bernie Sanders could have defeated him in 2016 may seem unproductive. Eight years ago feels like...
Less than two months before president-elect Donald Trump takes office, the Biden Justice Department announced it could be handing corporations a get-out-of-jail-free card, even if they have committed multiple crimes, earned significant profit from their wrongdoing, and...
During the 2020 election campaign, the Joe Biden campaign made much of the stark differences between its candidate and Donald Trump. When Biden won, many Americans breathed a sigh of relief and believed America could...
