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In a March 30, 2025, telephone interview with Kristen Welker of NBC News, U.S. President Donald Trump stated: “If they [the Iranians] don’t make a deal, there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen.” This vitriolic statement was reflective of Donald Trump’s desire to remake the Persian…
Read Full Article... about Apocalypse Now? The Evolution of Trump’s Policies Towards IranConservatives long have had it in for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps.[1] Ronald Reagan hated it so much that he refused to reverse severe program cuts even when faced with mounting hunger amidst a deep recession, choosing instead to send surplus “government cheese” to states to distribute to the…
Read Full Article... about A Termite’s Guide to Undermining SNAPI have been conducting transdisciplinary research on HIV/AIDS, COVID, overdose, and related topics for over forty years. In my HIV research, I have had to try to understand a virus that, without intervention, destroys its host human body within about ten years—which might look like a recipe for a viral disease’s self-destruction. Underlying this, however,…
Read Full Article... about The Government Attack on Public Health ResearchIntroduction: The Faustian Bargain Higher education in America long ago sold its soul to corporate America. Whether through its heavy dependence on corporate funding for business schools and scientific research, the rebranding of students as “customers,” the evisceration of tenure to promote flexibility in hiring, or the adoption of top-down, management-heavy infrastructures, universities have steadily…
Read Full Article... about American Higher Education in the Era of TrumpThe fight is on for the future of cities and with it the future of democracy in the country. The Trump administration’s ham-fisted deployment of federal troops and the National Guard to usurp local policing and bolster ICE roundups of “immigrant-looking” residents is being challenged by mayors and governors and by citizens outraged by the…
Read Full Article... about Mamdani, a “New Municipalism”, and the Undertow of Party ElitesIn the spring of 1910 newspapers around the country speculated about what was going to happen in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the result of the election of a Socialist mayor in that city. The mayor, Emil Seidel, tried to calm the fears of those who predicted a dangerous revolution was about to take place. Still, after…
Read Full Article... about A Socialist Mayor for New York? What History SuggestsThe true difference between Byron and Shelley consists in this, that those who understand and love them consider it fortunate that Byron died in his thirty-sixth year, for he would have become a reactionary bourgeoise had he lived longer; conversely, they regret Shelley’s death at the age of twenty-nine, because he was a revolutionary through…
Read Full Article... about Reflections on Shelley’s The Cenci: Transgression, Exorcism, SacrificeAt the heart of preeminent American avant-gardist Stan Brakhage’s cinema, there lies a central tension or struggle between abstraction and representation. Film critic and Brakhage chronicler Fred Camper has posited The Riddle of Lumen (1972) as a kind of central work in this regard, arguing for that film as a turning point in Brakhage’s work…
Read Full Article... about The Metonymy of Light: Three Early Works by Stan BrakhageShakespeare’s contemporary John Webster wrote that death hath ten thousand several ways for men to make their exits. But he was silent about the number of ways they re-enter. John Rodden has filled the gap with Scenes from an Afterlife, his account of the near ten thousand several ways that Orwell has been revived to…
Read Full Article... about Afterlife Of An AtheistThe Messenger and His Message Jimmy Carter’s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, is an insider memoir with a political purpose. It tells the story of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process from 1973 to the present intertwined with Carter’s own experiences and reminiscences as the president who convened Camp David I, brought about the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty,…
Read Full Article... about Israel’s Palestine: It’s Apartheid And Not Peace
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2026: Vol. 25, No. 2
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2026: Vol. 25, No. 2
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