When Donald Trump was 13, his father caught him with a hidden cache of switchblades. Fred Trump, according to Tony Schwartz, who ghostwrote the president’s […]
Month: May 2026
Australian cows help Indonesia’s slow recovery from FMD outbreak
An Australian dairy program in Indonesia is helping farmers in West Java boost production after a devastating foot-and-mouth disease outbreak…See More
Water restrictions loophole has some big players still pumping, expert warns
A loophole in the NSW government’s water restrictions in the northern basin of the Murray Darling means river water is still being sucked up by […]
Israel’s Emergency Budget Shows Netanyahu’s Weaknesses
For the first time in Israel’s history, this week the government passed a budget in election year. Passage of the bill avoided immediately triggering elections […]
New Declarations
By invoking the American Revolution, twentieth-century anticolonial figures connected their project with the movement for civil rights in the United States.
Trump’s Top Economic Adviser Doesn’t Seem to Get That People Are Struggling
On Fox News Sunday morning, President Donald Trump’s lead economic policy adviser, Kevin Hassett, dismissed Americans’ struggles to cover the rising cost of living by […]
The Democratization of Air Power (Neon Liberalism #76, with Secretary of Defense Rock)
Samantha Hancox-Li and guest Secretary of Defense Rock talk the state of modern war: the proliferation of drones, the endurance of the human factor, Ukraine’s […]
Editor’s Notes: What the Trans Sports Debate Is Really About
The New York Times has once again determined that a trans girl winning a sporting event is national news. The girl in this case is […]
Interior Secretary Falls Apart And Admits Trump Is Grifting Off America’s 250th Anniversary
The confusion over the past week that led to the majority of the musical acts withdrawing from the Great American State Fair can be traced […]
How an Obscure MAGA-Linked Firm Lined up $1 Billion in Balkan Energy Contracts
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a graffitied Sarajevo backstreet, a path leads past […]
Trump’s latest spending defense springs a leak
President Donald Trump is defending the cost of a renovation project at the White House reflecting pool by arguing that former Presidents Barack Obama and […]
Santos, Lindell, Proud Boys eye Trump’s $1.8B fund
A growing list of applicants for a Trump administration-backed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” compensation fund includes January 6 defendants, far-right activists, former Trump allies, and prominent […]
‘We’re being made to look like fools’ – Gayton fumes over Bafana visa debacle
Bafana Bafana’s departure for the 2026 FIFA World Cup has been delayed after visa complications prevented them from travelling to Mexico…See More
Right-wing mogul ignites culture war in French cinema
Right-wing mogul ignites culture war in French cinema But French filmmakers are not ready to cut ties with controversial Vincent Bolloré. By GIORGIO LEALIin PARIS […]
Trump faces MAGA backlash over promotion of Epstein friend to key Mideast role
Donald Trump is facing pushback from within his own base after elevating Tom Barrack, a longtime Trump friend and fundraiser who was previously charged — […]
Here’s what created Trump — and why we’ll keep getting more of him
Friends, It’s impossible to understand American politics without also understanding the American economy (and vice versa). Politics and economics may be different disciplines but they’re […]
Along the river, before the fall: China pre-Renaissance city life
A boat is about to hit the bridge. That is where Zhang Zeduan’s Along the River During the Qingming Festival begins to reveal its secret. […]
Russia launches new Soyuz-5 rocket from Kazakhstan cosmodrome in first test flight
On Thursday, April 30, at 23:00 local time (Astana), the Baikonur Cosmodrome witnessed the first test launch of the Soyuz-5/Sunkar vehicle. The rocket lifted off […]
Reprieve for Salaried Kenyans as Court Rules on NSSF Deductions Law
The ruling comes as a temporary relief for salaried Kenyans even as the court is expected to hear and determine the full appeal that could […]
Militarism: the Biggest Obstacle to Socialism and Most Dire Threat to Humanity
Remarks delivered by DSA Co-chair Megan Romer at the Party of the European Left conference in Brussels. The post Militarism: the Biggest Obstacle to Socialism […]