By Jordan Stancil*– The Nation The assassination of a local politician is waking up the country to the threat of the radical right No one had planned to house refugees in Kassel district in western Germany. But then, no one had seen this many refugees arrive all at once…
By Sasha Abramsky* – The Nation That, plus Supreme Court clearance for a white-nationalist asylum policy, and GOP dirty tricks in North Carolina—all in a week’s work for the Trumpists While many in the media were fixated on Trump’s Twitter spat with Chrissy Teigen, or laughing…
By Maria Michela D’alessandro – The Globe Post Known as an epicenter of the migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean Sea, the island of Lampedusa is a popular Italian tourist destination. The island is the southernmost part of Italy, closer to Tunisia – 70 miles away – than Italy –…
The Economist As the courts are drawn into the Brexit crisis, there is still no sign of an alternative proposal to the rejected deal IT IS UNUSUAL for European diplomats and officials to become obsessed with British constitutional niceties. But recently they have watched…
Editorial Many will rightly celebrate the departure of the US national security adviser. But however welcome the news, it reflects the deeper problems with this administration No sensible observer of international affairs could lament Donald Trump’s announcement that he has…
By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times Sharpies, auto emissions and the weaponization of policy Democracies used to collapse suddenly, with tanks rolling noisily toward the presidential palace. In the 21st century, however, the process is usually subtler.
By Ben Ehrenreich* – The Nation What Extinction Rebellion, the grassroots civil disobedience movement, teaches us about transforming hopelessness into action The day I arrived in London a few weeks back, temperatures cracked 100 degrees at Heathrow airport. It was the hottest…
John Feffer* – Lobelog** Doesn’t idiocy ever take a vacation? As August wound down, the populist troika of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and Jair Bolsonaro proved once again that the United States, the United Kingdom, and Brazil would be better off with no leaders rather than the…
By Tom Engelhardt* – TomDispatch.com He crossed the border without permission or, as far as I could tell, documentation of any sort. I’m speaking about Donald Trump’s uninvited, unasked-for invasion of my personal space.
By Boaventura de Sousa Santos* Automatic tumble dryers notwithstanding, most people in the world (women, most often than not) hang the wash on clotheslines made of metal, hemp rope, or wood. Tree branches can also be used as clotheslines.
