By Ariel Dorfman* – The Atlantic One tiny mark on a ballot, and then one more, and then yet another forged a better, luminous collective future in a not so distant land. Can you recognize this country?
By John Cassidy* – The New Yorker As the reverberations from Tuesday night’s shambolic Presidential debate echoed around Washington on Wednesday, Senator Tim Scott, of South Carolina, the sole Black Republican in the upper house of Congress, called on…
The Guardian Donald Trump set the tone for a brawl that offered a bleak picture of American democracy Lloyd Green, Derecka Purnell, Geoffrey Kabaservice and Art Cullen Geoffrey Kabaservice*: ‘There were no winners’ As this annus horribilis grinds toward its close, the first (and…
By Lili Bayer* – POLITICO The Prime Minister of Hungary took advantage of the vulnerabilities of the bloc’s legal and political systems. It wasn’t supposed to be like this.
By Sasha Abramsky*- The Nation Shooting journalists, he says, is a “beautiful thing,” his fans have “good genes,” refugees are dangerous, and his political opponents should be prosecuted. There is at times an extraordinary, almost deafening quality to silence; the absence…
By Raja Shehadeh – The Guardian Israel has twisted its laws and contorted its politics to protect the occupation. The UAE and Bahrain deals won’t create peace More than a quarter of a century after Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn, Israel…
InsightHungary!!! (*) David Cornstein announces resignation “It was with a deep sense of pride, as well as some sadness, that I informed President Trump and Foreign Minister Szijjártó that I will be stepping down as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary on November 1.” U.S.
The National Security Archive – George Washington University Edited by Peter Kornbluh —————————- Nixon’s “Make the Economy Scream” Order issued 50 years ago Genesis of Nixon’s Infamous Regime Change Directive on Chile Recorded in Declassified…
Editorial – The Observer The tragedy on Moria should shame Europe into action Scenes of devastation and desperation at the burnt-out refugee camp at Moria, on the Greek island of Lesbos, are powerful reminders that Europe’s migrant crisis never really ended. The response of EU…
By Sonali Kolhatkar* – Independent Media Institute Under Trump, the collaboration of armed white supremacist Trump supporters and police is an explosive mix of violence aimed at communities of color. Police in America, whose mottos claim to “protect and serve” us, have been…
