America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing.” It is January 2026. I'm not sure if we've given it all as citizens ...

Al Polk landed a job at a cutting-tool plant in his early 20s and then promptly started paying Social Security taxes—every week, 12 months a year, without ...

For nearly eight decades, the U.S. dollar has occupied a place in the global order that no other currency has matched. It is the world’s default unit of ...

Trump’s narcissism has been on display for decades.  It is a serious personality disorder that is difficult to treat.  According to one prominent psychiatrist, Alexa Albert, narcissism is shaped by ...

President Donald Trump’s long-serving aide, Stephen Miller, recently opined: “We live in a world, in the real world … that is governed by strength, that ...

A murder in Minneapolis. A kidnapping in Caracas. Genocide in Palestine. Termination of trans people’s healthcare and rights. Criminalization of pregnant people. Detention, disappearance, deportation, ...

Karen Hao reported in her book Empire of AI: “Sam Altman announced he wants to see 250 gigawatts of data-center capacity laid by 2033 just for his company. New York City [uses] on average 5.5 ...

In this special episode of CounterPunch Radio, Bill Ayers, friend of Pilsen Community Books and fellow podcaster at Under the Tree, ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words from his “Beyond Vietnam” speech still ring true. “When machines and computers, profit motives, and property rights ...

Nicolas Sawaya is a former academic who strongly supports the Palestinian struggle for freedom and justice. He blogs at www.notesfromunderground.me and can also be found on X (formerly Twitter) at ...

A problem-solving principle stating that, when presented with competing hypotheses, the one with the fewer assumptions or entities (the ...