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America’s Constitution: the Good and the Awful
Image by Robin Jonathan Deutsch. With America’s constitution undergoing a stress test, it’s important to revisit and understand its fundamental structure and design. America’s Constitutional convention...
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The Soft Propaganda of the Oscars
Photo by Samuel Ramos I was not intending to write about the Oscars this year as I usually do, in some shape or form, but in catching up with the nominees I began to see a pattern. Jews. Jewish...
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From the West Bank with Love and Rage
Muhammad Abed El Rahman (left) and Saleh Bakri in ‘The Teacher’ COCOON FILMS. Set in the hills of the West Bank, The Teacher, written and directed by British-Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi, tells...
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San Francisco’s Inimitable Artist, Richard “Luckey” Perri
Richard (Luckey) Perri portrait of Sterling Bunnell. Photo: Jonah Raskin. Think of San Francisco artists and you’re likely to think of Ruth Asawa, whose work is currently on exhibit at SFMOMA, and...
View ArticleHow Lab-Grown Meat Could Bring an End to Needless Animal Cruelty
Billions of animals are killed each year to feed an unsustainable demand for meat. Lab-grown meat—also known as cultured, cultivated, cell-based, or clean meat—can offer a kinder alternative while...
View ArticleFrancis: the Fantasy of Church Renewal in a Time of Monsters
After a long period of declining health which saw an increasingly debilitated Francis struggling to hold onto life, it was the demonic visitation of US Vice President JD Vance, it seems, that finally...
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Nuclear Power Reactors in Vermont? Not Again
Image by Mohamed Nohassi. If there’s one truth about the nuclear power industry, it would be that it is persistent. Despite the fact that nuclear power has been drastically curtailed in a few countries...
View ArticleHow Can We Balance AI’s Potential and Ethical Challenges?
Artificial intelligence is transforming industries by automating processes, improving efficiency, and detecting patterns that humans might miss. However, as AI continues to evolve, so do the challenges...
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The Bloodlands Between Russia and Turkey
This is the seventeeth part in a series about riding night trains across Europe and the Near East to Armenia—to spend time in worlds beyond the pathological obsessions of Donald Trump. (This week,...
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Critics of Serbian Students, From Liberals to Neo-Nazis
Photograph Source: SergioOren – CC BY 4.0 In Serbia—perhaps the last corner of the world where Brussels’ viceroys, now impotent even within the EU itself, are still inexplicably consulted—stabilocracy...
View ArticleCould the Next Catholic Pope Be an American?
It’s never happened before: the election of an American Pope. Normally, Pope’s are chosen from the ranks of Italian cardinals and bishops – and indeed, an American Pope would have to be a cardinal –...
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Immigrants Are Our Neighbors, Isn’t That Enough?
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair I recall seeing a sign in a yard in my small hometown of around 12,000 residents. “No matter where you are from,” it said, “we’re glad you are our neighbor.” It was...
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Each Cup of Coffee You Drink is a Celebration of Arab-American History
Photo by Karl Fredrickson Many of us start our morning with a cup of coffee (or several). It’s easy to take for granted. But where does it come from? Ethiopia is the birthplace of coffee, but it was...
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The Myth of “The Economy”
Image by Anne Nygård. The term “economy” is often used as a catch-all, but the way it’s discussed by politicians and pundits is typically misleading. We frequently hear that “the economy” is growing,...
View ArticlePope Francis: a Loss for Humanity
We should have seen it coming – pope Francis had been sick, old and frail for some time. But still his death was a shock, reminding those who care of the lugubrious truth that there really are very few...
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Every Accusation is a Confession: Insurrection Edition
Photograph Source: Michael Vadon – CC BY-SA 4.0 Article III of the US Constitution provides for congressional establishment of “inferior courts” — that is, courts other than the Supreme Court — and for...
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Pope Francis’s Lesson of Love and Peace
Photo by Ashwin Vaswani In 2022, Pope Francis created a will expressing his desire that just one word be inscribed on the stone marking his burial place: Franciscus. Franciscus, Latin for Francis, is...
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Starving the Poor to Feed the Rich
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair As a child, I felt so fancy when we used the purple food stamps — those were the pretty ones. We were a hardworking, loving family. My parents ensured we weren’t...
View ArticleTrump World is a White World
President Trump’s policy initiatives appear driven by various motives, including retribution, personal enrichment, narcissism, petulance, and perhaps more. Yet an underlying goal in the President’s...
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The Betrayal of the Black Community
Image by Mattia Faloretti. Significant numbers in the Black community feel betrayed by our so-called allies who ignored the warnings of Black people regarding the elections, its political rhetoric, and...
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This Mental Health Awareness Month
Image by Andrej Lišakov. The United States has been in the throes of a mental health and overdose crisis so severe it has spanned five presidential administrations and been classified as an official...
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The Multilayered Inhumanity of the Kentucky Derby
Photo by Kybluegrass of the sculpture of Barbaro, one of the horses who has died in the Kentucky Derby (CC BY-SA 3.0) Saturday the 3rd of May is Derby Day at Churchill Downs in Louisville. Here come...
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The Self-Liberation of the Jasenovac Death Camp and a New Serbian Catharsis
Jewish families arriving at Jasenovac Death Camp. Public Domain. Eighty years have passed since April 1945, when the surviving inmates of the Croatian Nazi camp—Jasenovac—rose in revolt, staged a...
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David Brooks Gets Something Right
Image by ALEXANDRE DINAUT. You know something is up when the longtime deeply conservative establishment pundit David “Aw Shucks” Brooks calls for a “a comprehensive national civic uprising” against...
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Trump’s Second Term is a Masterclass in Inconsistency
Photo by Jon Sailer As President Donald Trump’s second term is about to hit the wall of 100 days, one critique has grown louder: his inconsistency. Critics point to his sudden reversals, contradictory...
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Living on the Cliff’s Edge: the Anasazi, Pope Francis and the Fate of the Earth
Puyé Ruins, northern New Mexico. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. “If we approach nature and the environment without [an] openness to awe and wonder, if we no longer speak the language of fraternity and...
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Three Theses on Trump’s Rule
Sue Coe, Touchless Fascism, 2024. Courtesy the artist. Preface: Emigre politics When writers go into exile, I read somewhere, they discuss the politics of their former countries more than before they...
View ArticleHall of Shame: Exposing 2025’s “Dirty Dozen” Employers
Fourteen U.S. workers, on average, died at work daily in 2023, according to the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health (National COSH). Moreover, an estimated 120,000 workers pass away...
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On Trump’s Arrest of a Milwaukee Trial Judge
Milwaukee trial court judge, Hannah Dugan. This morning, President Trump directed the FBI to arrest trial court judge Hannah Dugan in Milwaukee. She is being charged with obstructing law enforcement, a...
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A Backward Look at Easter: The Possibility for White People to Lose Supremacy...
Photograph Source: Cunhal94 – CC BY-SA 4.0 [I] was quite content…to let everything about me go on, unquestioned, like a great machine – that was its habit and mine – to take it all for granted and...
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