There is a simple problem professors sometimes challenge their intermediate econ students with on the first day of class.

President Donald Trump’s plans to build a space-based Golden Dome missile defense shield have drawn immediate criticism from ...

Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy By Michael Hudson ...

Joshua Frank is an award-winning California-based journalist and co-editor of CounterPunch. He is the author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America (Haymarket Books ...

"There is no question or doubt that nobody will starve or go hungry in the United States." Herbert Hoover spoke those words in 1931, days after thousands of poor Americans converged for a Hunger ...

It has now been more than 30 years since the butcher of Auschwitz Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned the world that Iran would soon acquire nuclear weapons. In 1992, in an address to the Israeli ...

Are we all fools? Apparently, the US Forest Service and our politicians think so as we see exploding budgets for addressing wildfire that result in ...

The UK house of Commons this week voted 385 to 26 to proscribe Palestine Action, a grassroots group active in protesting Britain’s complicity in Israel’s actions in Gaza, as a terrorist ...

Margaret Peacock is Professor of History at the University of Alabama. She is the author of Innocent Weapons: The Soviet and American Politics of Childhood in the Cold War and coauthor of A Deeper ...

People are asking about my reaction to Zohran Mamdani’s spectacular and decisive upset in the Democratic primary victory for Mayor of New York over ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani’s victory ...

Amira Al-Zaneen is a writer in Gaza. She is the co-author of I Am No Longer Afraid to Die: Witness Gaza.

Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture, recently announced the administration’s plan to repeal the 2001 Roadless Rule and open an estimated 58 million acres of public Forest Service ...