There is a simple problem professors sometimes challenge their intermediate econ students with on the first day of class.

President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from ...

Jeffrey St. Clair is co-editor of CounterPunch. His most recent book is An Orgy of Thieves: Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (with Alexander Cockburn). He can be reached at: sitka@comcast.net or ...

All the old tropes have been resurrected to entice us into another military fiasco. A country that poses no threat to us, or to its neighbors, is on the verge of acquiring a Weapon of Mass ...

The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power! —Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I. As geopolitical tensions between Israel and ...

At a time when many may feel that good news has gone the way of the dodo, look no further than the homeland of that long-extinct bird — Mauritius — for a ...

Our offshore concentration camps, for now, are in El Salvador and Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. But don’t expect them to remain there. Once they are normalized, not only for U.S.-deported immigrants ...

Robert Hunziker lives in Los Angeles and can be reached at rlhunziker@gmail.com.

Those five days in November were cold, and seemed colder inside the gates of Auschwitz and of Birkenau. We were 90 retreatants from many nations – Israel, ...

The Nature of Fascism, U.K. Edition, 1968: Weidenfeld and Nicholson. He went on in his review to state that “[Rosenberg] is not a brilliant stylist,” yet “everything he puts down is ...

Daniel Falcone is a historian specializing in the revolutions of 1848 and the political refugees who sought asylum in New York City. His academic work focuses on Giuseppe Garibaldi’s influence ...

Consider the Spanish conquest of the Americas alongside Israel’s assault on Gaza. In many ways, the two events, separated by half a millennium, are incomparable. The first was continental in ...