Author: nick

A new survey of students at regional public universities by the think tank Third Way offers some surprising insights. Source link

Republican frustrations with Trump are becoming more public and more direct – and so is Trump’s frustration with Senate Republicans. Source link

An Iranian missile hits the Israeli oil refineries near Haifa on March 19, 2026. Photo: Hanay, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 In the past year, Israel and the US have twice used their advanced technology and massive firepower to launch surprise attacks on Iran and Lebanon, killing thousands of civilians and destroying ‘enemy’ weapons and boats, as well as mosques, churches, hospitals, museums, highways and bridges. Notwithstanding Trump’s pompous claims, Iran has defeated the US and Israel. Although Israel has continually had a laser-sharp focus on its goals, the US never had a clear view of why it was fighting.…

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Trump administration on two major immigration cases Thursday, handing the administration important victories in its fight to tighten the nation’s borders. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox In a pair of 6–3 rulings split along ideological lines, the court said migrants in Mexico have not “arrived in the United States” for purposes of federal asylum law until they cross the border, and that courts generally cannot review the government’s decisions to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS). The decisions reversed lower-court rulings that had blocked the policies. Previously, immigrants…

Here’s a sentence no one expected to read: The government of Cuba is embracing the importance of markets and the business sector. Earlier this month, the state-run newspaper Granma announced 176 economic reforms that would legalize private banking, private business ownership, private real estate ownership, and the privatization of state-owned companies. It is an admission that Fidel Castro’s communist experiments of the 1960s have failed. “Cuba must not repeat the mistakes of the past, and must not depend, in economic matters, on any single product or any single country. Our country must seek an economic development path where we must…

Pruden argues that to defend against a quantum computer capable of cryptographically relevant operations, we need post-quantum cryptography and regulatory coordination that the industry has been deferring for years. ast month, the United States Commerce Department signed letters of intent to award just over $2 billion to nine quantum computing companies building the machines that break the cryptography defending Bitcoin and Ethereum, and the cryptography that the rest of the internet runs on. These are not simply research grants. They represent industrial policy for manufacturing scale, and an investment in long-term equity outcomes where the government hopes to turn a profit. IBM…

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis announced at a press conference Thursday that the state’s “Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp is shutting down after less than a year in operation. It’s a quiet end for a detention camp that the state of Florida opened last July with a splashy media rollout, including Alligator Alcatraz merchandise and tours by President Donald Trump and conservative social media influencers. But the hype faded as the camp, located on a remote airstrip in the middle of the Big Cypress National Preserve, racked up huge operating costs and numerous lawsuits—a sort of Fyre Festival of incipient authoritarianism.…

Nothing pleases American military men more than being fed their own bullsh*t. “We’re the greatest,” “Greatest military in all of history,” “No one can beat us, no one can even fight us,” etc. This is what they tell each other, it is what they expect to hear from civilians, and, in Washington, it is what most office-holders, including presidents and secretaries of defense, believe. The effects are currently on display in the Persian Gulf.  The scoreboard tells a different story. In the Second World War, we beat the Japanese in the Pacific fair and square. But the Red Army won…

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Tori Tsui talks with Karim Ali, co-founder of the Gaza Sunbirds. Karim Ali is a Palestinian award-winning community organiser and co-founder of the Gaza Sunbirds – a para-cycling team of Palestinian amputee athletes. Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Source link

The former National Security Advisor John Bolton pled guilty Friday to one count of mishandling classified information, information which he used as part of a 2020 book that criticized President Donald Trump. Per a plea deal arranged with federal prosecutors, Bolton will pay a $2.25 million fine and could face up to five years in prison. Bolton’s indictment followed an investigation beginning under the first Trump administration and continued under the Biden administration. He attempted to frame the Trump administration’s indictment as an attempt to “intimidate his opponents.” Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox The October…