CounterPunch was founded in 1994 on a simple principle: independent journalism must be accountable only to its readers. For ...

Opera thrives on competition as much as collaboration—on who can sing higher, louder, longer, more passionately; what production can seduce or scandalize ...

A Novel by Bart Schneider; Art by Chester Arnold; Kelly's Cove Press; 2025; $20. Artists, Ezra Pound once observed, were “the ...

Sherlock Holmes, the famous fictional detective, believed that his brother, Mycroft, could also have been a brilliant solver of crimes if he had not been ...

The era of the Department of Defense is over… From this moment forward, the only mission of the newly restored Department of War is this: warfighting.” — ...

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a widely reported yet poorly understood phenomenon. Though there is no agreed-upon definition of an NDE, it has ...

Ours would be the normal story of imperial powers rising and falling on Planet Earth — nothing new there, of course — if it weren’t for one thing: the ...

Before I begin relating my four-decade tale about Andy Mahler and Me, I want to share an observation from my granddaughter Raina, which I know you all ...

World leaders meet every September for the UN General Assembly. There have been plenty of weird moments over the years: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ...

As of this writing, all the information the public has about the alleged killer of Kirk is that he acted alone, drove his own car, used his grandfather’s rifle, and was turned in to law enforcement by ...

Years ago, a rabbi I greatly admire confided in me how he worried that an Israeli government with Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm might lead to the ...

As we go through Trump Shutdown IV, I had a few thoughts to share. Montana Senator Steve Daines – Truth Telling Republican At a time when Vice President ...