8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

Among political leaders who have reacted to an unsuccessful assassination attempt on Donald Trump at the MAGA hopeful's Butler, Pennsylvania rally Saturday, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) expressed sympathy and relief — surprising some experts. Taking to social media, Pelosi wrote via X (...

We traveled to this bad place together, which means, in theory, that we can still decide to go somewhere else

By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.1 The Ministry's figures have been contested by the Israeli authorities, although they have been accepted as accurate by Israeli intelligence services,2 the UN, and WHO. These data are supported by independent analyses, comparing changes in the number of deaths of UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) staff with those reported by the Ministry,3 which found claims of data fabrication implausible.

The Trump rally shooting in Pennsylvania reveals a bipartisan consensus about what constitutes political violence — and who should wield it.

Violence stalks the president who has rejoiced in violence to others.

The shots fired at Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday are being investigated as an assassination attempt of the former

The “mournful, plaintive wail of Irishness” is the soundtrack for both the Kennedy and the Biden stories, in which triumph is always shadowed by calamity. There is in this structure of feeling no easy opposition of hubris and nemesis. There is just, as Obama said to Biden when his son Beau was dying, the awareness that “life is so difficult to discern”—difficult because it does not offer itself in the easy forms of the wonderful and the terrible but confuses the two by conjoining them as twins. The political manifestation of this awareness is not the upbeat rhetoric of the American Dream; it is a politics of empathy in which the leader shares the pain of the citizen.

In 1992, U.S. foreign-policy exceptionalism went into overdrive. The U.S. has always viewed itself as an exceptional nation destined for

In black-is-white fashion, MAGA rushes to blame Biden and Democrats for political violence.

A leading expert on far-right, oppressive governments around the world is warning that former President Donald Trump would usher in fascism in the United States if he wins a second term this fall.In a detailed interview with Guardian reporter Alice Herman, scholar and author Ruth Ben-Ghiat — a profe...

By dismantling UNRWA the Israel is seeking to eliminate the Palestinian right of return to their homeland and to liquidate their cause, in addition to depriving millions from their basic rights

Pierre Poilievre faces intense criticism: Viral clip shows Conservative leader shit his pants amidst tough questions from Indigenous leaders.

Three days ago, Israel’s leading newspaper, Haaretz, published the results of its thorough, comprehensive investigation into what actually

The Conservatives are emboldening violent extremists and undermining democracy.

for the future of our democracy, this shit has got to end

Ex-Trump strategist told financier to ‘stick to his message, which is that he is not a paedophile’, New York Times reports

The anonymous plaintiff dropped her lawsuit against Trump, the circumstances around which have been bizarre.

A plaintiff proceeding under the pseudonym Jane Doe filed a notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice against defendants Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiff, through her attorney Thomas Francis Meagher, dismissed the above-captioned case without prejudice pursuant to Rule 41(a)(1)(A)(i) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

Kevin Roberts, president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation, declared a "second American Revolution."