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  • Women’s Work Is Devalued Under Capitalism

    Few questions have haunted feminist theory and the feminist movement as persistently as the deceptively simple one: What is a woman? Some have tried to answer it directly. Others have argued that the question itself is a form of exclusion, a demand for definition that inevitably leaves someone out. Still others have rejected the question

  • “Who Cares?” Gave Us Trump

    Recently, Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias debated the merits of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs on a new podcast for the liberal magazine the Argument. Demsas took the view that these programs are, on the whole, fine. Yglesias argues that they are rotten and politically dangerous. He gives an eye-popping example featuring billionaire former

  • Political Corruption Is Being Normalized

    In an easy-to-miss two-line order in its shadow docket, the US Supreme Court just vacated the corruption conviction of a local official, raising a question: Will the kind of influence peddling that’s now ubiquitous in politics eventually end up being explicitly deemed unprosecutable simply because it’s so ubiquitous? Cincinnati Democratic councilperson P. G. Sittenfeld had been

  • Capitalism Is Coming for Your Literal Dreams

    Consider the sudden appearance of a product called full-body deodorant on a store shelf near you. In the past couple of years, newer hygiene brands such as Lume and Mando, as well as legacy giants such as Secret, Dove, and Old Spice, have begun flooding television and social media with a blunt proposition: your armpits

  • The Spirit of the Americas Against the Donroe Doctrine

    On October 2, 1945, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia — whom Zohran Mamdani has consistently cited as his “all-time” favorite New York City mayor — signed into law a city council bill renaming Manhattan’s Sixth Avenue to the Avenue of the Americas. Weeks later, he presided over a grand renaming ceremony, flanked by flags from across

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    • The Scammers Profiting off Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

      In March, a man who needed legal representation reached out to Maria Aguila’s law office in Jacksonville, Florida, asking to meet with an attorney. The only problem was that she had never heard of this attorney, and she is a solo practitioner who focuses on immigration and family law. Aguila was in court at the

    • Is AI Pushing Us Closer to Nuclear Disaster?

      Earlier this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that it was moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock to 85 seconds before midnight, a symbolic hour signifying global catastrophe. The hands have been moved 27 times since the clock’s creation in 1947, and they’re now the closest they’ve pointed to worldwide destruction. The

    • Trump DOJ Dumps January 6 Sedition Convictions

      In 2023, after Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for his role in the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress, the Justice Department noted the stiff sentence reflected the court’s conclusion that Rhodes’ “conduct was terrorism.” “The Oath Keepers plotted for months to

    • The Chappell Roan Harassment Campaign Is Plain Old Misogyny

      Justice for Chappell Roan! On Monday, Jorginho, the soccer star who alleged that the bestselling artist was responsible for a security guard making his stepdaughter cry—supposedly because the child stared at Roan—made an apology on his Instagram story: “I made my initial statement in the heat of the moment after hearing that my child and wife

    • The American Experiment Has Been Infected by Oligarchs

      There’s a virus in our tax system. A stealth virus, it was embedded in America’s economic DNA for a century, biding its time, waiting for the appropriate conditions to reveal itself. And then we created those conditions, unleashing it to infect our institutions of culture and democracy, replicate, and burst forth to infect anew. An

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    • Bangladeshi Fashion Workers and a German Law

      While the original whitewashing was simply the painting of a surface – such as a house – with a lime-based mixture for sanitation, more recently whitewashing has come to mean the covering up of corporate scandals to make them appear better. This is why corporate public relations – evil heretics call it corporate propaganda –

    • Lebanon and the Geography of Unfinished Ambition

      Lebanon sits today not merely at the edge of war, but at the fault line of an idea—an idea that has outlived empires, outpaced diplomacy, and repeatedly redrawn the moral boundaries of international order. The language of ‘security’ has long framed Israel’s military actions, yet beneath it lingers a far older and more combustible narrative:

    • Law for the Lawless

      Should the United States be bound by international law? Donald Trump doesn’t think so nor does his defense secretary. Last January President Trump told the New York Times, “I don’t need international law.” According to Pete Hegseth, “We will keep pushing, keep advancing, no quarter, no mercy for our enemies.” Not only has “no quarter”

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    • Greater North America and the US Government’s New Regional Geography

      Just over a month has passed since the first missiles of Operation Epic Fury killed, on the very first day, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, 150 schoolgirls and school staff, and most of Iran’s military (40) and political leadership and days since a precarious ceasefire went into effect. The attacks have not only destroyed vital infrastructure More The post Greater North America and the US Government’s New Regional Geography appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

    • 250 Years of American Racism

      I was born in the American South in 1942 “in the land of the free and the home of the brave” (as the final stanza of the national anthem puts it). Francis Scott Key wrote those words in 1814. However, they were not true then, or in 1942, or today in Donald Trump’s all too reactionary More The post 250 Years of American Racism appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

    • From the War on Iran to the War on Crypto, the Secret Weapon is Digital Currency

      With the war on Iran partially paused, this might be a good time to turn to the war on crypto. Everyone knows crypto, that giant cesspool masquerading as an alternative currency or a great investment opportunity. As many of us have pointed out, the idea that Bitcoin would ever be an alternative currency was close More The post From the War on Iran to the War on Crypto, the Secret Weapon is Digital Currency appeared first on CounterPunch.org.

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    • Modi’s Silence: How India Submits to Washington Taking Everything

      In early March, a U.S. submarine torpedoed an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean. The ship, a frigate called the IRIS Dena, had been docked at an Indian port just days earlier – an invited guest at India’s flagship multinational naval exercise. It had participated in a ceremonial parade attended by India’s president, Droupadi Murmu.