David S. D’Amato is an attorney, businessman, and independent researcher. He is a Policy Advisor to the Future of Freedom Foundation and a regular opinion contributor to The Hill. His writing ...

Dean Baker is the senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC.

Over the years, US Presidents Nixon, Carter, Reagan, H.W. Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, Obama, Biden, and now Trump, have all paid fealty to the canard of ‘living within our means.’ Note the ...

Introduction The concept of the “ ruling class ” has long served as a central analytical tool in the social sciences, particularly in Marxist traditions. [1] This article traces the evolution ...

For the king, the aim was to make “submission not just tolerable but actually desirable.” That enabled Mesopotamian rule to be personal and indeed dynastic. “The king was not just the most ...

After being betrayed by the United Nations more than sixty years ago, Melanesian West Papua, occupied by Indonesia ever since, is a particularly poignant case in point. In its increasingly ...

125 years after it was first serialized in three installments in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899, Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness continues to be ...

“Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.” — Sun Tzu During the Israeli-Hamas “war” ...

For the past six decades, Indonesia has been an occupying colonial power in West Papua. The United Nations is responsible for this and its atrocious consequences, as John Saltford meticulously ...

President Trump, in his March 4 State of the Union address, stated: "And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland. We strongly ...

They instituted a policy of executing Black POWs, ignoring the decorum afforded to white POWs. Many massacres of Black troops line the war’s history; at Fort Pillow, around 200 Black soldiers ...

Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is ...