The United States was an expansionist nation from its very beginning. Whether taking lands from indigenous Americans along the east coast, purchasing the Louisiana Territory from France, spreading into the southeast Gulf States with slaves and cotton, bringing slaves...
It’s been two months since COP27 (the latest annual United Nations meeting on climate change) ended and our world is facing so-called “freak storms” and “once in a generation weather events” one after another. Since COP27, the United States has faced the bomb cyclone...
As the Republican Party regained control of the House of Representatives, disruption and uncertainty took hold in Washington and in the press. Although Kevin McCarthy is himself a right-wing politician who has enabled Trump and far-right radicals in the House, a group...
January 15 marks the anniversary of the 1919 murders of revolutionaries Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent German socialists of the early twentieth century. They were active at a time when Germany had a powerful workers’ movement, rife with...
President Biden met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador of Mexico on January 9 and 10 in Mexico City, reportedly to discuss economic policies, climate change, and immigration. In reality, the U.S., Mexico, Canada...
