Optimism…is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.” – Voltaire, Candide You, Governor Polis, ...

Donald Trump’s re-election marks not just a political turning point but the ascendance of a corpse-like order, a nation ...

It has become something of a fixation in the Donald Trump war chest of options that cowing, discomforting and baffling his ...

We find ourselves in a precarious situation. Yet another moment in human history when capitalism paves the way for fascism.

According to Elon Musk, USAID, America’s chief foreign aid agency, “deserves to die.”  Why? Because it is “a viper’s nest of ...

One can look back into the catacombs of history and find a multitude of precedents that almost but not quite fit. Caligula ...

It sure didn’t take long for the chaos that seems to be a trademark of the GOP’s one-party government to flare across the ...

Convicted felon Donald Trump has declared war on Americans. In less than two weeks, he has become the dictator, a role he ...

For the past quarter century, ever since 2001, presidents of the United States inaugurate their terms not with bottles of champagne but with drone and missile strikes. Donald Trump followed the rhythm ...

Okay, as far as I know Elon Musk is not literally in your underwear, but it seems that he is in your tax, Social Security, and Medicare records. This ...

This week on CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz about their new book, “Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death and Inequality in ...

Mass deportations from the US, promised by Trump, could worsen these problems, as happened in El Salvador in the late 1990s.