Counterpunch

Image by Jia Li. At an Uzbek restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, we ate plov, manti, and shashlik, and talked for a couple of hours. It was summer. The chicken wings he’d insisted on ordering grew cold; I leaned back in my chair, my belly distended from the food and several...

Donald Trump doesn’t have much interest in numbers and the real world, but that is where the rest of us live so it is worth checking in periodically. Trump and many others — including many Democrats —  are anxious to see the United States as engaged in a Cold War-type...

Image by Jia Li. At an Uzbek restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, we ate plov, manti, and shashlik, and talked for a couple of hours. It was summer. The chicken wings he’d insisted on ordering grew cold; I leaned back in my chair, my belly distended from the food and several...

Donald Trump doesn’t have much interest in numbers and the real world, but that is where the rest of us live so it is worth checking in periodically. Trump and many others — including many Democrats —  are anxious to see the United States as engaged in a Cold War-type...

Image by Jia Li. At an Uzbek restaurant in Sheepshead Bay, we ate plov, manti, and shashlik, and talked for a couple of hours. It was summer. The chicken wings he’d insisted on ordering grew cold; I leaned back in my chair, my belly distended from the food and several...

Donald Trump doesn’t have much interest in numbers and the real world, but that is where the rest of us live so it is worth checking in periodically. Trump and many others — including many Democrats —  are anxious to see the United States as engaged in a Cold War-type...

Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. Yes, Bibi– you are losing your game. You placed bets on the lives of others not only the lives of your enemies but also those of your own citizens who are slowly dying while you are oblivious to their fate. But one day you will be...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair It has become abundantly clear that after 250 years, a second American revolution is necessary.   Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), emphasized the importance of periodic uprisings to...

Fae Myenne Ng. Fae Myenne Ng doesn’t want to forget the officially lost periods in the history of our country.   Born in San Francisco in 1956, she was among the first wave of post-Chinese Exclusion births, a child of the Confession era. She grew up in San Francisco’s...

Cain and Abel by Albrecht Dürer, woodcut, 1511. I began publicly invoking the word “genocide” in July 2025 to describe the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza in response to the horrific Hamas terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, and the incomprehensible...