Новости за 20.11.2025

A student of historiography and the study of history, as well as history itself, Eric Foner would like yet another American Revolution, one which would fulfill the promise of Reconstruction when Blacks held public office and the nation made strides toward equality until a counterrevolution came along and installed Jim Crow. More

Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Seven years later, Donald Trump received Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman—the man U.S. intelligence concluded ordered Khashoggi’s killing—with open arms in the Oval Office. When ABC News journalist Mary Bruce asks him directly about that finding, Trump shrugs: “Things happen.” More

UN climate conferences are primarily announcement summits. For 30 years, industrialized countries, which are primarily responsible for the climate crisis, have been promising that they will reduce greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the climate science, promote the energy transition, and combat the effects of climate change. Additional promises have also been made regarding climate financing More

Disfigured by 200,000 tons of American bombs, the mountain of rubble called Gaza represents the open casket of Emmett Till, whose funeral forced the world to behold the ugly, violent truth of America’s failure to protect a people suffering racism, colonial violence, torture, and murder for centuries. The genocide against Palestinians since October 2023, and More

As world leaders and thousands of researchers, activists and lobbyists meet in Brazil at the 30th annual United Nations climate conference, there is plenty of frustration that the world isn’t making progress on climate change fast enough. Globally, greenhouse gas emissions and global temperatures continue to rise. In the U.S., the Trump administration, which didn’t More

The subversive power of imagination In my last post I recalled the vision of historian William Appleman Williams seeking an American future beyond “empire as a way of life,” as he called and documented it through his career as one of the leading radical historians of the 20th century. Williams proposed reconstituting the United States More

What makes up a marriage has been the subject of state, community and tribal control since human society took some form.  Who is to marry whom; the process of selecting the appropriate breeding partners; the limits and penalties imposed on those partners in cases of transgression.  Love did not necessarily have anything to do with it. Traditionally, More

I finally got around to seeing Paul Thomas Anderson’s excellent new film, One Battle After Another, which is a favorite to win Best Picture at next year’s Academy Awards. Leonardo DiCaprio stars as a former member of a revolutionary-adventurist group, similar to the Weather Underground or the Black Liberation Army, who is pulled back into More

Of all the criminal, fascistic things going on in the U.S. right now, the rampage of ICE and Border Patrol agents across the land rises to the top. This is an all-out, Brown Shirted war on the American populace that is on the verge of leading to civilian deaths. Congress must act to stop this More

The government shutdown has been very personal for me and my community in Alabama. As a 41-year-old mom of two children on the autism spectrum and a long time caregiver for many members of my family, I depend on government programs like food stamps, called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, to make sure More

Although the world is experiencing severe global crises, there are new efforts underway to create a more effective means of coping with them. The crises are clear enough. They include vast slaughter in horrific wars, worldwide climate catastrophe, massive population displacement, and deepening poverty. Moreover, these disastrous situations are likely to worsen in coming years. More