Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and I at the South Dakota Festival of Books. Deadwood, South Dakota. October 4, 2019. No thinker has occupied as much space in my mind than Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Her writing could be sharp—sometimes biting—but always deeply principled. She once told...
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The World Chaim Grade Lost
Lily Meyer The Yiddish writer's lost masterpiece, Sons and Daughters, brought back to life, in all its humor and beauty, the Jewish shtetl of his youth. The post The World Chaim Grade Lost appeared first on The Nation.
Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.)
Marc Frank Now it’s aiming at Cuba’s international medical missions. The post Will the Trump Administration Face Headwinds as It Tightens the Noose Around Cuba? (Yes.) appeared first on The Nation.
Trump desprecia una América Latina balcanizada
Observatorio en Comunicación y Democracia (Comunican) Desprecio y castigo, son las bases de la política punitiva del gobierno de Donald Trump hacia América Latina y el Caribe, profundizando una lógica de hostigamiento, basada en sanciones, deportaciones masivas,...
Crisis política y democracia. ¿Dónde está el poder en el Perú?
La Línea El frustrado mandato de Pedro Castillo nos enseñó que el poder no se encuentra en Palacio de Pizarro… dicho de otra manera, la conquista del poder ejecutivo es insuficiente si no se controla el poder militar, judicial y tecnocrático. La actual descomposición...
Trump Trillion Dollar NATO Gambit
Photograph Source: Bart Maat – CC BY-SA 4.0 Donald Trump is embracing new military goals for NATO that may lead to an additional trillion dollars in military spending and the greater militarization of Europe. In pressuring the members of the North Atlantic Treaty...
How SCOTUS Killed Democracy: Seven Supreme Court Decisions That Brought Fascism to America
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The Supreme Court in a 6-3 decision on June 27, 2025 created in Donald Trump an American fascist dictator. The decision in the case Trump v. CASA, Inc. did not seem momentous. It declared only that Federal District judges could no...
Illness and Endless Wars
Image by Europena. War kills in so many ways. These days, Americans are bombarded with images from Gaza and elsewhere of people or broken bodies being ferried on stretchers from the rubble of homes and hospitals, by rescue workers whose thin bodies and stricken faces...
Sound Grammar: Francis Davis and the Best Jazz of 2025, So Far
Image: Jeffrey St. Clair. I bought my first ‘jazz’ LP in 1974 at a headshop called Karma on the southside of Indianapolis, thinking it was a rock record: Birds of Fire by the Mahavishnu Orchestra. This genre-melding recording did rock, but in ways I hadn’t heard...
France Risks Following America’s Bad Example
French right-wingers don’t yet have a leader like Donald Trump. Yet the creation of Fox News–like TV channels, harsh culture wars, and the decline of class politics are pushing France along a path troublingly similar to the United States. People wave French flags at...
The Inevitable Militarization of Space?
Boeings X-37B 1 sits on the runway after landing at the Shuttle Landing Facility at KSC.. U.S. Space Force/Staff Sgt. Adam Shanks President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from China, which...
El 55% de los hogares que podrían recibir el IMV no lo han solicitado, según la AIReF
La complejidad administrativa, la brecha digital o la falta de modificaciones estructurales en el diseño de la prestación están entre los motivos que señala el organismo independiente.Temas: El Salmón Contracorriente, Renta básica, Pobreza infantil, Pobreza, Brecha...