Yes, this 25-year deal is a big deal, just recently signed and not getting much attention in the US media.  Juan Cole has called it the mos...

 The who?  Never heard of them?  Or never heard from them? More like the latter. After all they have not been called "Silent" for ...

 Yeah, to heck with "socialism" in any of its forms, even old varieties that Marx and Engels denounced, neologizing the label ...

 Yesterday (or maybe the day before), Virginia Governor Ralph Northam overturned over 400 years of a death penalty. My state had the highest...

  “It was zero threat. Right from the start, it was zero threat,” Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham. “Look, they went in — they should...

 On the tenth anniversary of the Arab Spring uprisings that held so much hope at the time but would lead eventually only to one nation, Tuni...

 The murderer of 8 people recently in the Atlanta area, of whom 6 were Asian American women, mostly (if not completely) Korean American, has...

I was sure that the English translation of Friedrich Engels's Preface to volume 2 of Capital had used the expression "rescued from...

 I was long aware that Frances Perkins (1880-1965) was the first woman to serve as a cabinet secretary, namely Secretary of Labor for Frankl...

 My freshly arrived Spring 2021 issue of "On Wisconsin," the alumni magazine of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has an articl...

  Jennifer Zeng is a major personality in the apocalyptic right-wing Falun Gong cult. She's not some generic "CCP critic." May...

 Who the Hell do these academic journals think they are violating my sacred First Amendment free speech rights? We regret to inform you that...

In An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) William Godwin declared, "the object, in the present state of society, is to multipl...

There are two theories out there about how to vaccinate.  One says, look, we have data only on the protocols that were adopted in the trials...

 Probably not I am afraid.  Indeed, this label is a recently cooked up one, to replace an earlier one that used "Islamist" instead...