Dinosaur Speak

The American political drama, or electoral theatre, is reinforced so aggressively because it is the most basic and effective distraction p...

Anthony DiMaggio lecture. A shortened, accompanying text. TS

I'm a little late with this, as with all else, but the poet Tom Clark died August 23 at age 77, three days after being struck by an au...

Sadly, as a nation, the U.S. doesn’t recall Cheney’s lies, or his role in planning the contemptible “Shock and Awe” saturation bombing ca...

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Here’s a thought: What if the media just stopped covering Trump on a daily basis? Why must they dutifully replay every infuriating word f...

DURHAM, NH—Blaming those with a differing worldview for sowing rampant discord in society, political scientists at the University of New ...

The efforts by the Democratic Party and much of the press, including CNN and The New York Times, to discredit Trump, as if our problems a...

It’s election season again, that joyous time of the biennium, and you know what that means: a renewal of the perennial left-wing debate o...

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Louis Proyect goes in-depth on the commodification of art in this compelling piece. TS

PORTLAND, Ore.—It is 8 a.m. I am in the small offices of Street Roots, a weekly newspaper that prints 10,000 copies per edition. Those wh...

Give to CounterPunch, the best online zine in the world. My computer was down, finally responded briefly and I heard some...

In the hearings, Kavanaugh tried to pass himself off as a regular guy who worked his way up the ladder on merit, not connections: “I got ...

What are you doing here reading this crap when you could be here reading the stuff that counts? I'm too tired to have a good weeken...