In October 1947 19 screenwriters, directors and producers were summoned from Tinseltown to Washington to testify before the ...

Israel’s war on Gaza is increasingly a war on childhood, a war on the future of Palestinian life on the Strip. An assessment ...

Extremely dangerous ground which requires the most scrupulous prudence and caution, language also constitutes a powerful ...

In the early 1990s, doctors in Hiroshima, Japan, discovered a stress-induced syndrome they called Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, ...

While I am certainly not one to begrudge those residents of Syria who are celebrating the end of Assad’s ultimately brutal ...

The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols fills King’s College Chapel at Cambridge University every year on the afternoon of ...

I have spent the better part of my life as a bomb-throwing, dyed-in-the-wool, radical leftist, and there was a time when I ...

This piece was first published on CounterPunch in March 2021. When the Arab Spring came to the Middle East ten years ago, ...

A key question here is whether the destruction that Trump will rain on wage earners, while at the same time nurturing ...

Last year the fiftieth anniversary edition of my old SDS book was published, the classic history of the central organization and essential creative center ...

Assad’s fall is undeniably worth celebrating — it’s a rare unifying force for a deeply fractured country. But after decades of oppression and 14 years of war, it will take much more to heal these ...

As the rebel forces led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (Syria Liberation Committee) seized Damascus, Syria’s capital, on December 7, ...