Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump is putting in place the largest tax increase in the country’s history with his big import taxes (tariffs). We won’t know the full size of Trump’s taxes until after Liberation Day III (August 1), and probably not even...
Photograph Source: Ajay Suresh – CC BY 2.0 When media critic A.J. Liebling wrote in The New Yorker 65 years ago that “freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one,” he might have glimpsed a media system dangerously dominated by a small number of...
Photograph Source: Wikideas1 – CC0 The United States is responsible for half of global spending on defense. The Trump administration is committed to spending more than $1 trillion dollars on defense, and this figure doesn’t include the hundreds of billions devoted to...
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. The starvation and genocide in Gaza and Israel’s unconstrained colonial and imperial arrogance have reached a point beyond redemption. Benjamin Netanyahu’s endless wars now bleed into Syria, attacking the heart of Damascus with absolute...
In a gut punch to the base, National Education Association leaders lickety-split dismissed a motion passed by a majority of the NEA’s 7,000 delegates not to partner with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for curriculum or professional development. In a possible...
Photograph Source: Ashraf Amra – CC BY-SA 4.0 The odious idea of a camp within a camp. The Gaza Strip, with an even greater concentration of Palestinian civilian life within an ever-shrinking stretch of territory. These are the proposals ventured by the Israeli...
Image by Patrick Tomasso. I grew up poor, that is, American poor. I fantasized about food at night–mashed potatoes, buttery dinner rolls, raspberry cheesecake. I would wake up and imagine a breakfast–strawberry waffles with whipped cream, cold orange juice–then, talk...
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump is putting in place the largest tax increase in the country’s history with his big import taxes (tariffs). We won’t know the full size of Trump’s taxes until after Liberation Day III (August 1), and probably not even...
Photograph Source: Ajay Suresh – CC BY 2.0 When media critic A.J. Liebling wrote in The New Yorker 65 years ago that “freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one,” he might have glimpsed a media system dangerously dominated by a small number of...
Photograph Source: Wikideas1 – CC0 The United States is responsible for half of global spending on defense. The Trump administration is committed to spending more than $1 trillion dollars on defense, and this figure doesn’t include the hundreds of billions devoted to...
Image by Mohammed Ibrahim. The starvation and genocide in Gaza and Israel’s unconstrained colonial and imperial arrogance have reached a point beyond redemption. Benjamin Netanyahu’s endless wars now bleed into Syria, attacking the heart of Damascus with absolute...
Image by Vlad Tchompalov. Since the attached article was published on May 2, 2025, Trump has made matters worse by having his Congressional Republicans shred America’s historic social safety net in one big, savage, cruel, and vicious bill. He also gave more power,...