8. The Nitty Gritty: Capitalism & Fascism

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."

The leader of conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation argued the Supreme Court’s ruling on presidential immunity will reinforce a “second American Revolution,” which he sa…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has approved the largest seizure of land in the occupied West Bank in over three decades, a settlement tracking group said Wednesday, a move that is likely to worsen already soaring tensions linked to the war in Gaza.