DID YOU SEE Donald Trump’s victory coming? I sure as hell didn’t. That Hillary Clinton would lose to a guy who says things like “My words are the best” seemed so improbable that last summer... Read More

  “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was... Read More

“People say that if you find water rising up to your ankle, that’s the time to do something about it, not when it’s around your neck.” —Chinua Achebe THE 2016 ELECTION was a shock to... Read More

IN THE SPRING of 2016 a physician in Buffalo, New York, was issued a 114-count indictment accusing him of “the unlawful distribution of narcotics” and “operating a criminal conspiracy.” The US Attorney General for the... Read More

  during the last week of October, I made a twenty-four-hour drive to join in the resistance efforts at the Standing Rock encampments near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Hundreds of indigenous nations and non-Native accomplices... Read More

Jared Diamond is the author of five best-selling books about human societies and human evolution, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages. 1991’s The Third Chimpanzee is his first book, followed by the 1997 Pulitzer... Read More

Medea Benjamin has been an advocate for social justice for more than forty years. As an economist and nutritionist with the United Nations and World Health Organization in the 1970s and early ’80s, she brought... Read More