This is an overhead view of the Holman Correctional Facility. Photograph Source: www.PrisonInsight.com – CC BY 2.0 This week, I reached out to the Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) for comment on the problems with the heating system in Bullock Prison. ADOC did...
Chris Van Hollen meets with Abrego Garcia, April 2025 – Public Domain President Bill Clinton’s former secretary of labor, Robert Reich, as well as many liberals and progressives, is leading the chorus in arguing that Donald Trump and his “bottom-feeding fanatics…have...
Image by Tim Dennell. Recently, in an executive order, President Trump directed the removal of “improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the Smithsonian Institution. That order was, in essence, an attempt to rewrite history on race and gender....
Photograph Source: Charles J. Sharp – CC BY-SA 4.0 Although there is no evidence that the European bison (Bison bonasus), known as wisent, ever roamed the islands of the United Kingdom, its genetic heritage suggests that it is attuned to the environment. The European...
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Cambridge, UK—Elon Musk may have a knack for thinking outside the box, but reportedly his twisted scheme to force even totally legal and law-abiding immigrants to lose their ability to work or continue to work legally...
Photograph Source: Genet (Diskussion) – CC BY-SA 4.0 Tax policy experts and lawmakers have long circled 2025 as a year to prepare for. What makes it so significant? For one thing, Federal COVID money to states is expiring, straining state budgets at the same time the...
Photo by Melissa Bradley The world has entered a new climate era that threatens the fabric of civilization because it’s the reverse of the climate system that society was built upon. As it happens, the biosphere is starting to unravel as the world’s long-standing...
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg talks to Jeanne Theoharis about her new book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South, in which Theoharis argues that King’s time in Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and...
Photo by Nick Fewings Over the last five or so decades, American elections have become increasingly defined by what they don’t accomplish. The classical liberal model of free and fair elections to select representatives who act in the public interest has been replaced...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “Man is what he eats,” (“Der Mensch ist was er isst“) is a well-known pun in German on ist (to be) and isst (to eat) from the 19th century German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach. More than a pun in German, it is an excellent short...
Image by Phạm Nhật. Recall those feverish days leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq when Colin Powell presented his dubious evidence to the United Nations Security Council, claiming Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs. The result of those bogus lies was The Iraq...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair All across the United States, people are rising up–refusing to be complicit in the slow-motion annihilation of democracy. They march against a regime that strips away public goods, criminalizes dissent, vanishes students, and hollows...