Geography Archives: United States

In a ruling that stems from the president’s birthright citizenship order, the “conservative supermajority just took away lower courts’ single most powerful tool for reining in the Trump administration’s lawless excesses.”

The U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear program marks a point of no return. Trump has permanently altered the foundations upon which the non-proliferation architecture regarding Iran was built.

The following records come from the President’s Office at Harvard University involving the terms of the reappointment of Paul Sweezy at the rank of Faculty Instructor in the Harvard economics department.

A recent report by Yaakov Garb of Ben-Gurion University presents an data-driven analysis of the new “aid distribution” compounds in Gaza.

Mondoweiss talks to political consultant Peter Feld to break down Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York City: “It’s proven that Zionism is a paper tiger in Democratic politics and that the emperor has no clothes.”

Big tech is working hard to sell us on artificial intelligence, in particular what is called “artificial general intelligence.” At conferences and in interviews corporate leaders describe a not-too-distant future when AI systems will be able to do everything for everyone, producing a world of plenty for all. But they warn, that future depends on […]

The U.S. and Israel’s unchecked aggression has plunged the world into a lawless state of imperial violence—yet their latest attacks on Iran have only exposed the limits of colonial power.

Catholic hospitals have denied lifesaving care to pregnant patients since long before Dobbs—and their presence is expanding.

A FAIR analysis of media coverage of the top six Democratic candidates (based on polling through the end of May) found that Cuomo’s name appeared in headlines seven times more often than Zohran Mamdani, who for months had been in second place in opinion polls, and nine times more often than Brad Lander, who typically came in No. 3 in the polls (as he did in first-round voting).

The advent of cellular technology has made it so much easier to track where any of us have been, simply by triangulating the locations of the cell towers our phones have pinged along the way.

In communities where access to fresh food is scarce, public grocery stores can provide crucial resources at lower prices.

Court ruling means migrants can now be deported without the opportunity to contest their destinations.

African Stream’s Pan-African, anti-imperialist journalistic perspectives made it the target of a state that colludes with corporate media to spread war propaganda.

Aid sites operating under a U.S.-backed model are now scenes of repeated massacres, with no pause even amid regional war escalations.

If you were wondering about changes in the use of the death penalty at either the state or federal level since Donald Trump reassumed the presidency, well, wonder no more.

If the President and his allies were serious about improving lives, they would back bills that reform our immigration system and protect the farm economy.

According to the Unified Rules of Boxing issued by the U.S. Association of Boxing Commissions and Combative Sports, when the bell sounds for the end of each round, there is a “rest period” before the boxers resume their fight, or one retires too hurt to continue.

CounterSpin interview with Farrah Hassen on criminalizing homelessness

Today, SCOTUS released its ruling on Skrmetti, allowing Tennessee to ban transgender healthcare. The ruling was both devastating and limited, leaving many fights unsettled.

(6 June 2025) In a new publication, historian and legal scholar David Keanu Sai establishes (again) that the Kingdom of Hawaii never ceased to exist, as its 1898 annexation by the USA was void even under U.S. law.