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When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Jonathan Ross shot Minnesota resident and mother of three Renee Good in the head last week, Republicans immediately declared that Americans would overwhelmingly support the killing. Little of...

The facts of Renee Good’s murder at the hands of ICE agent Jonathan Ross are indisputable. In a society led by people with a commitment to truth and human decency, we wouldn’t have to rehearse...

On the ride from Jackson Heights to LaGuardia Airport yesterday evening, I explained to my taxi driver why I was headed to the airport’s taxi lot. Mayor Zohran Mamdani was announcing his nominee to lead...

The Federal Reserve has quietly delivered nearly half a trillion dollars to Wall Street with few strings attached over the past few months through an obscure government financial program intended for banks struggling to make...

Gilbert Achcar The Kurdish autonomous administration in northeastern Syria is not an integral part of the ongoing revolutionary process in the Arab world. It is a byproduct, made possible by the civil war that weakened...

Watching the murder of Renee Good in Minneapolis and the political developments that followed, it was impossible not to be reminded of the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry. The British Army killed thirteen civilians on...

Last Spring, US Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr summarily dismissed the expert-advised study intended to inform changes to the nation’s nutritional guidelines, claiming it was dominated by scientists with ties to...

Avi Shlaim Benjamin Netanyahu grew up in a very nationalistic Zionist home, and he’s always been on the right wing of the Zionist movement. He personifies some of the most negative aspects of Zionism, like...

Interview bySara Wexler Yesterday nearly 15,000 nurses launched a strike at three private sector hospital systems in New York City. Nurses represented by the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) have walked out at multiple...

ICE appears to be reveling in the hypocrisy and double standards that the Trump administration’s unqualified defense of their sickeningly violent and occasionally murderous behavior, against Renee Good and innumerable others, has given them license...

Foreign policy starts at home. For Trump, home is where his biggest political problem lies. The Jeffrey Epstein investigation looms large, but even that isn’t as massive a political liability as the affordability crisis, a major factor...

Vivek Chibber Interestingly, the book says two things that are potentially different avenues of explanation, but may be made consistent. The one they explicitly endorse halfway through in explaining why you have this kind of...