Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn’t wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores.

A quick headline roundup from the last couple of weeks: "US Electric Grid Heading Toward ‘Crisis’ Thanks to AI Data Centers" (Common Dreams, January 2) ...

An undated photograph from Epstein's estate. Class conflict in America has been primarily framed either in economic terms favored by the left or in ...

If President Donald Trump cares in the slightest about Iranian protestors — and our country — he must not attack or threaten to attack Iran. Doing so ...

In a flagrant disregard for international law and national sovereignty, the Trump administration invaded and kidnapped Venezuela's President Maduro and ...

With each passing day, Donald Trump & Company’s military assault on Venezuela – and the extractions of Pres. Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores ...

Boards of directors are a funny bunch. Often lacking expertise, claiming knowledge they do not have and insight that never illuminates, its members can ...

The New Year did not begin with hope or joy, except for the arms dealers. More precisely, for the military-industrial-media-academic-NGO complex that ...

On May 4, 1970, following Republican President Richard Nixon’s April 1970, announcement of the expansion of the Viet Nam War into Cambodia, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a group of Kent State ...

Jazz is music made in the moment and our moment is an increasingly perilous one. As a writer trying to keep up, I often feel as if I’ve exhausted the power of words to describe where we are, how we ...

Wolverines in the lower 48 States were trapped, hunted, and poisoned to near extinction in the late 1800s and early 1900s and have not recovered, just the ...

There are no in-house critics in Trump’s second term (2025-2029), which may be more apocalyptic, leading to the derogation of America’s democracy and greater use of force at home and abroad.  The ...