Dick Cheney died the day before Zohran Mamdani was elected NYC mayor. His funeral was the day before Mamdani met Trump. Are the two linked in a symbolic changing of the guard of U.S. politics? asks Joe Lauria.
The festival of pardons that now features prominently in America’s political life offers a measure of how the republic, in its late-imperial phase, is crumbing.
As in Potsdam at the end of the Second World War, the only path forward now is working out the terms of Ukraine’s defeat. And there is still time to save lives, writes Stefan Moore.
Trump holds the cards to end this war but he has to find the fortitude to stand up to the Europeans and the neocons he appointed.
Alfred W. McCoy on the role of energy over the past five centuries in fueling imperial supremacy and the current politics of American decline amid China’s green-energy ride to global power.
With a skyrocketing insurance premium forcing her to give up her health coverage, Melissa Garriga says she joins all the other people around the world harmed by U.S. militarism.
The Trump regime’s 28–point Ukraine peace plan accepts Moscow’s core concerns as legitimate. That’s essential for any possible settlement of the war, or the broader crisis between Russia and the West.
Trump’s constitutional breaches are enough to rouse James Madison from his grave, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. On top of all that comes “The Kavanaugh Stop.”
U.N. Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese discusses why, in her most recent report, she called out more than 60 nations for their collective-crime roles in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
