The article by Elena Basile discusses the widespread feeling of helplessness that permeates society due to the current trend towards militarism, a sentiment that crosses
The legacy media are furious about Tucker Carlson interviewing Putin. But why? And does the new power axis of Tucker and Elon Musk now dwarf all legacy media combined?
Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson: Discusses Russia-Ukraine history, criticizes NATO, sanctions impact, and advocates for dialogue & peace
Explore the complex history and aspirations behind ‘From the River to the Sea,’ a symbol of Palestinian desire for freedom and equality
Isabelle Kumar of Euronews interviewed Noam Chomsky about terrorism, Cuba and the future of Europe.
“The objective is to destroy Gaza, this absolute evil,” said Dror Eydar, former Israeli ambassador to Rome from 2019 to ’22, on Italian TV. Not to destroy Hamas, but Gaza…
If Bibi Netanyahu knew the history of the country he rules, he would not continue to fight an invisible phenomenon like Hamas terrorism with artillery and tanks.
Christiane Amanpour’s interview with Yuval Noah Harari, exploring the long-term implications of Hamas’ attack on Israel and the subsequent retaliation in Gaza.
Europeans often ask, and Americans do not always explain, how it happens that this great office, the greatest in the world, unless we except the Papacy, to which any man can rise by his own merits, is not more frequently filled by great and striking men?
Originally an article in Harper’s, “What’s Wrong with Animal Rights?” demonstrates how Hearne’s attempts to explain animals end up being at least as much attempts to understand people.
John Oliver discusses the human rights abuses the Uighur people are facing at the hands of the Chinese government, and why those atrocities are worth our undivided attention.
Oliver discusses Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and his career in business, outlining his campaign rhetoric, varying political positions and failed business ventures. He also says the Trump family name was changed at one point from the ancestral name “Drumpf”.
‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’ explains how the pandemic bolsters affordable housing crisis
‘Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’ addresses alarming Coronavirus spikes in prisons and jails, Urges depopulating facilities to avoid spread of COVID-19
John Oliver chose to forgo the usual Last Week Tonight format in favor of spending his entire episode Sunday night talking about the police brutality that led to the anti-racism protests that followed the May 25 killing in Minneapolis of an unarmed black man, George Floyd.
The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opponents than from his fervent supporters.
Bill Maher applauds the police officers who have finally begun to acknowledge that the problems in their ranks extend beyond just a “few bad apples.”
Zizek discusses and links together several topics, such as the Black Lives Matter movement, the ‘All Lives Matter’ response to it, identity politics, subjectivity and universalism, why white liberals are attracted to identity politics in general and the meaning of the ‘Plus’ in LGBT+.
Born some twenty years after Julien Benda, Randolph Bourne published his own attack on the betrayal of the intellectuals in the midst of World War I, a decade before Benda’s Betrayal appeared. He was a clerk avant la lettre, who played the part with splendid vehemence and political recklessness.
In his editorial New Rule, Bill Maher has what he believes is a simple way for Democrats to win back the White House in 2020: presidential candidates have to stop acting weird.
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