Donald Trump

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...

‘War on Cartels’ and Harm Reduction in Peril

President-elect Donald Trump wants drug traffickers to be executed and could soon have the authority to make that...

Arab and Muslim States Prep for Trump’s Return

Donald Trump’s electoral victory means that other states, particularly in the Middle East, have to prepare for a...

“War on Cartels” and Harm Reduction in Peril

President-elect Donald Trump wants drug traffickers to be executed, and could soon have the authority to make that...

Keir Starmer promises Ukraine will be ‘top of my agenda’ at G20

Ukraine will be “top of my agenda” this week at a meeting of leaders from the world’s most...

Could Labour build closer EU trade ties and would this increase growth?

The Bank of England governor, Andrew Bailey, used his Mansion House speech on Thursday to say Brexit had undermined the UK’s economy and to...

Trump sues for billions from media he says is biased against him

With only two months left until Donald Trump returns to the White House, the president-elect and convicted felon has been waging lawfare by a...

Seismic Changes

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...