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The Rise of Trump and the Fall of American Empire

Some 15 years ago, on December 5, 2010, a historian writing for TomDispatch made a prediction that may yet prove prescient. Rejecting the consensus of that moment that U.S. global hegemony...

The Truth Behind Musk v. Brazil

In early October, Brazil lifted its ban on X following a prolonged battle between its government and the...

Biden’s ‘Last Bang’ in Ukraine

It was widely expected, including by the victors of the 2024 presidential election, that the Biden government would ramp up...

Don’t Panic

The following story is co-published with Freddie deBoer’s Substack. Look, the reelection of Donald Trump is bad news. A lot...

Study: End World Bank Support for Factory Farming

Animal agriculture is one of the leading drivers of the climate crisis. According to a recent World Bank report,...

The Case for Abandoning X

On Wednesday, The Guardian announced that it will no longer be posting to X.com, the website that murdered Twitter, cut off its face and placed...

The Billion-Dollar Tumble

Kamala Harris’ devastating loss to Donald Trump was a catastrophic failure for the Democratic Party and the consultant class that has long steered its...

Threats to the First Amendment in the Age of Trump

I thought I was done with free speech. For nearly two decades, I reported on it for the international magazine Index on Censorship. I wrote a...

A Moment for Determination, Not Fatalism

When some leading thinkers at the London School of Economics saw fascism take hold in the 1930s, Oxford history professor Ben Jackson said in a recent...

Trump’s Army of Social Vigilantes Are Ready To Exact Their Revenge

It was a little after 1 a.m. when I left the Real News Network studio in downtown Baltimore. Our team spent the whole night there, anxiously watching election results roll...

A Foreign Policy Bucket List for Biden

Freed of the constraints of the presidential campaign, President Joe Biden and his administration can use the next two months to recalibrate U.S. policy...