‘Strongmen’ Are Weak Men

Netanyahu’s more fervent supporters have been chanting, “Bibi, King of Israel” since his first election as prime minister in 1996, and it looks as though they will get to crown him and place a scepter in his hand.

The Violence of the Occupation Comes Home To Israel

Mainstream society in the metropole of an imperial power can go on an awfully long time without ending up on the wrong end of the gun or the baton.

The Scorpion and the Whip

Israel, like every democratic nation now plagued with powerful far-right movements, has its own unique backstory that helps explain it.

Who’s the ‘Banana Republic’ Now?

“Stupidity doesn’t have an ideology,” Peruvian lawmaker Ed Malaga-Trillo said. “It doesn’t belong exclusively to the left or the right.”

Don’t Weep for Liz Cheney. Weep for America.

You still read, ad nauseam, that there is a “battle for the soul of the Republican Party” Nope. That ended before it began, in the spring of 2016.

Getting the Government We Deserve

If you slavishly follow a blatant con artist of a leader because you enjoy watching him say and do hateful things to people you don’t like, you deserve to have him come back and burn down the tattered remnants of your life.

An All-American Hybrid: The Coming Totalitarianism

It is now becoming possible for us to glimpse the dim outlines of the totalitarian Farce/Fascist regime preparing to take power in America, starting with the anticipated sweep of this November’s elections by the MAGA-tized “Republican” Party, and culminating no later than January 20, 2025, with a new MAGA president. However, it is entirely possible

Trump Is No Stalin, But the MAGAs Are Stalinists

Trump is not merely a symptom; he is a catalyst of the Party’s transformation into a movement devoted solely to getting and keeping power by any means, including mob violence.

Death Squad Politics Comes to America

If the Republican Party was anything like it was even thirty years ago, Greene would be a major embarrassment to it, and its other Congressional members would have joined with the Democrats in kicking her off all committees and expelling her from Congress, instead of giving her a standing ovation.

Losing the Struggle for Humanity

On a recent trip to Aruba, my wife and I visited a small museum dedicated to the history of slavery in the Caribbean island, a former Dutch colony. One detail I will never forget: some of the kidnapped Africans were put to work making salt by evaporating seawater. Sounds harmless, right? Wrong: as the water