You might think that the insurance industry is going to suffer massive losses in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Think again. Even as climate change has increased the ferocity of …

Since 1993, 60.2 million workers who had been on the job for at least three years have been laid off, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Another 75.7 million with less than three years …

William Goldhagen’s 1996 book, “Hitler’s Willing Executioners,” asserted that the majority of the German people acquiesced to the mass murders of 6 million Jews. Some Holocaust scholars …

I have been smitten lately with the idea of voting strategically, which I first read in an essay by Andrew Marantz in The New Yorker. He quoted Mark Rudd, who was a member of the Weathermen, a group …

It’s been a brutally long, and brutally short, presidential campaign. The most important to our national destiny since 1860. I’m not sure I can bear much more. I’m ready to vote. In fact, I …

Time was when America’s Ivy League colleges and universities were bastions of liberalism. No longer. Today, these reputable ivy-covered institutions tend more to be bastions of money and privilege; …

Documentary musical artist and band biographies abound on the streaming TV universe these days, which should come as no surprise. For many if not most of my fellow baby boomers as well as Generation …

Only in America can a dope for the ages – a tax cheat and adjudicated financial fraudster who bankrupted casinos – still manage to fail upward almost all the way to Presidency II. And have the …

If John Lennon and Yoko Ono turned their 1969 honeymoon into a “Bed-In for Peace” to protest Vietnam, three years later, as the war continued, they took over America’s airwaves to spread their …

You think the Affordable Care Act, for all the flaws attributed to it, is basically secure - much as you assumed Roe v. Wade was basically sure? It is just as vulnerable to changes that would …

What comes after Nov. 5? Most Americans and the betting markets believe that Kamala Harris will win the election. She’s even close in Iowa. No matter what happens, we need to find center again. …

Even though nearly three decades past the peak of a storied career, Kris Kristofferson still deserved a better venue than the backroom of a smoky Minnesota gambling casino. The sound was bad, the …

Like it or not, abortion access has always been viewed as a “women’s problem.” Men rarely talked about it, at least not publicly, and it didn’t seem to rank very high on their list of …

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass), Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas), and 14 other members of Congress recently sent letters to 35 companies that have been paying their top five executives more than …

Ann Arbor – The Israeli assassination of Hassan Nasrallah has implications for the struggle of Iran and its alliance of resistance against Israel and the United States. But I would like to step …

The essays in “A New Global Geometry? Socialist Register 2024,” an annual publication, unpack a wide range of anti-capitalist analyses on past and current political and social contradictions and …

One of the challenges to the establishment of the conditions of peace in the Middle East is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This year, the conflict erupted into a horrific war and an …

How unsurprising is it that former President Donald Trump appeared recently at an event supposedly devoted to opposing antisemitism — and proceeded to deliver a speech dripping with antisemitic …

As a voting, tax-paying citizen of the troubled state of North Carolina, I have nothing against Mark Robinson or his Big Orange Brother Donald Trump. I hope that when their public careers have ended …

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the blond MAGA Goddess from Georgia, the FanGirl of Q-Anon, the spreader of conspiracy theories about Jewish space lasers and Democrat pedophile rings, to name a few, has …