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Image by Claudio Schwarz. According to research from the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), “The Productivity-Pay Gap”, May 15, 2025, a majority of Americans’ financial affairs have reached a crisis level. Their standard of living has steadily declined over the past...

Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. A recent report by Haaretz, one of the most prestigious Israeli newspapers, on IDF soldiers’ actions against Palestinians civilians looking for food, represents a damning accusation of the soldiers’ behavior. Predictably, Israel Prime...

Photo by Tim Mossholder I thought I knew myself pretty well, but then this old-age thing hit . . . hard. Both physically and psychologically. I’m still in Appleton, Wisconsin as I write, awaiting my second cataract surgery, right eye, tomorrow. The first one went...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “He who saves his country violates no law,” tweeted President Trump in February. He was echoing a line often attributed to Napoleon. His supporters were electrified by Trump’s tacit invocation of a right to boundless power. The Trump...

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair PBS’ Amna Nawaz tried. When interviewing Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, Nawaz asked for clarification on Trump’s flipflop of whether or not to exempt from arrest undocumented agricultural and...

Photo by Steven Cordes “There is no question or doubt that nobody will starve or go hungry in the United States.” Herbert Hoover spoke those words in 1931, days after thousands of poor Americans converged for a Hunger March on Washington DC, demanding government aid....

Homelessness isn’t policy failure—it’s policy.

Photo by Steven Cordes “There is no question or doubt that nobody will starve or go hungry in the United States.” Herbert Hoover spoke those words in 1931, days after thousands of poor Americans converged for a Hunger March on Washington DC, demanding government aid....

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Sorry, I’ve been on the road, so not much time for writing. I did want to quickly mention a couple of points about the data on consumption for May which were released on Friday. First, real consumption actually fell in the month. That...

Getty and Unsplash+. Growing up in Venezuela and now living in the United States, I’ve always felt caught between two independence days: July 4th and July 5th. Two celebrations. Two flags. Two very different ideas of what it means to be free. In the U.S., the Fourth...

Illustration by Paola Bilancieri. A recent report by Haaretz, one of the most prestigious Israeli newspapers, on IDF soldiers’ actions against Palestinians civilians looking for food, represents a damning accusation of the soldiers’ behavior. Predictably, Israel Prime...

NSW Greens Senator David Shoebridge told Suzanne James that Israel and the United States' attacks on Iran were “outright illegal” with “no evidence” that Iran is close to having nuclear weapons.