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What kind of place is this where the lives of young people can be taken from them, leaving a mangled mess of tissue and bone behind, and where a hospital becomes a crime scene? It’s not something that a person in Barcelona, London, Oslo, Canberra, Washington … can even contemplate. What would happen if we were talking about a quiet Parisian Street, or a hospital in Stockholm? That’s a silly question because it’s impossible. These are places of white people. Therefore it can’t happen. I’m talking... Читать дальше...

The DOJ is arguably alone among federal agencies in its degree of opacity and in its lack of accountability: it is the only federal government body whose inspector general is not permitted to investigate allegations of misconduct by its lawyers—an explicit exception mandated by federal statute. While the DOJ houses an Office of Professional Responsibility, lack of transparency is its official policy, as it “does not include names or personal identifying information in the summaries of its investigations.”... Читать дальше...

Tariffs are a tax that a country imposes on itself. It imposes costs in the same way that a tax on gas or beef imposes costs. Tariffs can also harm trading partners, but that doesn’t change the fact that the main victim is generally the country imposing tariffs. This is an important point to keep in mind when we evaluate whatever concept of a trade deal with China that Treasury Secretary Bessent puts forward. If we end up with a lower tariff on most items than the 154 percent tax that Trump has currently imposed, this will be good news. Читать дальше...

It is the final week of February 2024, and the City of London, the capital’s ancient financial district, where corporations cluster like woodland trees, is teeming with climate activists. For three days they march the streets, block the entrances, and infiltrate the lobbies of major insurance companies. They act as part of a global campaign More

“Governor [Kathy] Hochul is making a major push to not only build new nuclear plants in New York State but to make N.Y. the center of a nuclear revival in the U.S.,” declared Mark Dunlea, chair of the Green Education and Legal Fund, and long a leader on environmental issues in the state and nationally, More

Fifty years ago, on 30 April 1975, the revolutionary forces of the People’s Army of Vietnam and the National Liberation Front entered Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam. Two days earlier, in a desperate attempt to avert further war, the US brought in a ‘peace candidate’ – former General Duong Văn Minh – to More

This statement was prepared by Tariq Ra’ouf, a Palestinian American writer, human rights activist, and member of Taxpayers Against Genocide (TAG). He  read this statement at the press conference convened in Washington, DC on May 14 by TAG and the National Lawyers Guild International Committee to announce the filing of their historic legal complaint with the Inter-American More

Perhaps you nodded in solidarity as protests began around the country following the mass firings of federal workers, some 30% of whom are veterans. And you may have felt strong sympathy with students protesting the plight of classmates at multiple universities targeted for deportation by immigration authorities. But you’d be forgiven for scratching your head at what has somehow become More

The other day I got a phone call from someone calling himself “Jason” and claiming he worked for Con Edison, the New York gas and electric company.  He said that a Con Ed team were coming to my apartment to turn off my gas and electric service because I hadn’t paid a $450 conversion fee. “Jason” More

Marco Rubio has turned into one of President Trump’s “go to” guys. Appointed Secretary of State at the beginning of Trump’s second term, and recently appointed National Security Adviser, he has proven effective in translating Trumpian goals into policy practices. It is not that difficult for Rubio because he shares many of those same biases. More

In these first 100-plus days of the nation’s 47th presidency, President Donald Trump and his sidekick Elon Musk have cast a frightful spell over the country. As if brandishing wands from inside their capes — poof! — offices and their employees, responsibilities and aims, norms and policies have simply disappeared. The two have decreed a More

This overwhelming victory of the Red Army over the Nazis would not have existed, of course, without the 1917 Revolution. So say the characters in the novel “Never-Ending Youth”, which recounts the ardent youth against the Brazilian dictatorship. In Recife, in Brazil, they reflect the heroism of the worldwide, Soviet resistance to Nazism: “The revolution More

In most histories, the counterculture of the 1960s is usually considered a youth culture. In terms of sheer numbers, this is true, given that the majority of its adherents were people under the age of thirty. However, it was those that some like to call elders that inspired the culture and arguably led the way—if More