The second our alarms ring, we meet a bright, glaring screen: our phone. It does not help that our phones are often our alarms, so we have to pick up our phones to turn them off. Yet we do not stop there. Sometimes, those minutes turn into hours. We consume what should be more than…
Every era of American government has had its scandal. Trump’s innovation is to make scandal itself a governing philosophy. Although it is tempting to see the Trump regime’s corruption – its open profiteering, its use of the state as an instrument of vengeance and self-enrichment – as a perversion of American democracy, the truth is…
By giving the award to Venezuela’s Maria Corina Machado, the Nobel Committee has effectively crowned Trump’s vision of power and intervention as ‘peace’. By Steve Striffler Steve Striffler is the Director of the Labor Resource Center and Professor of Anthropology at UMass Boston. Published On 16 Oct 202516 Oct 2025 Click here to share on…
“Didn’t know you were famous,” the rapper Juliani, an old friend and musical collaborator, texted me from his studio in Nairobi. I didn’t have a clue what he was referring to, but then he forwarded me the link to a tweet by Elon Musk that included a screenshot of a 2019 Al Jazeera column of…
Art by Cara Tang Transparency Item: The Perspectives section of the Graphic is comprised of articles based on opinion. This is the opinion and perspective of the writer. A person’s style is often a defining characteristic of how you picture them. The kinds of clothes they wear, the choices between a graphic or non-graphic tee…
Tesla’s board is asking investors to approve a new pay plan for CEO Elon Musk that would make him the world’s first trillionaire. If approved by shareholders at the company’s Nov. 6 annual meeting, the plan would award Musk more than 423 million shares of Tesla, but with some really big caveats. Investors will have…
Over the past two decades, the posture of the United States towards China has evolved from economic cooperation to outright antagonism. US media outlets and politicians have engaged in persistent anti-China rhetoric, while the US government has imposed trade restrictions and sanctions on China and pursued military build-up close to Chinese territory. Washington wants people…
For the past few years, governments across the world have paid close attention to conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. There, it is said, we see the first glimpses of what warfare of the future will look like, not just in terms of weaponry, but also in terms of new technologies and tactics. Most…
‘Positive trend’ in US-Russia ties remains despite Washington’s ‘zigzag’ policy, Moscow says. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio have met again at the ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur, according to Russia’s state-run TASS agency, with the war in Ukraine the key focus. The conversation followed…
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s unexpected absence from public view between May 21 and June 5 this year has fueled widespread speculation about possible internal political shifts within the top ranks of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), CNN-News18 has reported. Source link