The human condition includes a vast array of unavoidable misfortunes. But what about the preventable ones? Shouldn’t the United States provide for the basic needs of its people? Such questions get ...

Both the Israeli and the American governments insist that the "Trump peace plan" requires the complete disarmament of Hamas, which, with an estimated ...

The flood of angry —and justified— reactions to this year’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, María Corina Machado, reveals less about the committee’s decision ...

I’m not an expert in assessing crowd density, but a half hour before the scheduled No Kings demonstration in Great Barrington ...

When the U.S. Federal Trade Commission announced it had settled its “dark patterns” lawsuit against Amazon last month, leaders at the antitrust and ...

Donald Trump refuses to release the September jobs report. While the ostensible reason is the government shutdown that began October 1, two days before ...

All the living hostages held by Hamas returned to Israel this week. The 20 men have been reunited with their ecstatic families. It’s extraordinary that ...

For the first time in decades, the public in the United States and across the West has begun to see Israel’s wars and occupation for what they truly are: acts of systemic injustice driven by ...

Since there is a lot of confusion surrounding the shutdown, I thought it would be useful to go over some of the main points as I understand them. I will ...

Before Trump ever landed in the White House in 2016, the United States represented less than 5% of the world’s population.

A single, candid statement by US President Donald Trump during a Fox News interview on October 9 may illuminate the true calculus behind Israel’s decision ...

Whether he has done so wittingly or unwittingly, President Trump has backed himself into a corner with respect to Venezuela.