For the past quarter century, ever since 2001, presidents of the United States inaugurate their terms not with bottles of ...

Optimism…is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.” – Voltaire, Candide You, Governor Polis, ...

Governor Gavin Newsom issued a controversial executive order that would make it easier to divert and store “excess” water ...

It has become something of a fixation in the Donald Trump war chest of options that cowing, discomforting and baffling his ...

We find ourselves in a precarious situation. Yet another moment in human history when capitalism paves the way for fascism.

Donald Trump’s re-election marks not just a political turning point but the ascendance of a corpse-like order, a nation ...

According to Elon Musk, USAID, America’s chief foreign aid agency, “deserves to die.”  Why? Because it is “a viper’s nest of ...

One can look back into the catacombs of history and find a multitude of precedents that almost but not quite fit. Caligula ...

It sure didn’t take long for the chaos that seems to be a trademark of the GOP’s one-party government to flare across the ...

Dave Feliz is retiring.  California is losing one of its greatest public servants.  For the past 26 years Dave has been the ...

In my view, the Trump administration is moving this country very aggressively into an oligarchic form of society where extraordinary power rests in the hands of a small number of unelected ...

This week on CounterPunch Radio, Erik Wallenberg and Joshua Frank talk to David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz about their new book, “Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death and Inequality in ...