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In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. STEVE WASSERMAN  In January, I wrote for the Winter 2026 issue of LIBERTIES quarterly journal a lengthy consideration of the state of American publishing. LIBERTIES was founded five years ago by Leon Wieseltier, the former longtime literary editor of The New Republic, and my essay is reprinted by ScheerPost with permission. You can access LIBERTIES website at: https://libertiesjournal.com I’ve been invited by Robert Scheer to write a monthly column. This inaugural essay will give you a sense…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Back in February, the Trump administration announced sweeping overhauls that would radically weaken the Operational Test for the 2030 Census. The test is meant to serve as a dress rehearsal of sorts, allowing the Census to evaluate its operational mechanics before scaling them up nationwide. And it would appear that some of the administration’s most important changes are intended to undercount immigrant populations, though other populations will be affected as well. As we noted in February, the administration sought several large-scale alterations that would undermine the utility of the test, including slashing the number of…

In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. UN officials warn that the U.S.–Iran conflict and the shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz are triggering a fertilizer collapse that could ripple into food shortages, soaring prices, and mass hardship worldwide. Staff A farmer stands in a field outside Amritsar, India, scattering fertilizer across green crops—an ordinary act that now sits at the edge of a global emergency.…

United States ruler Donald Trump has attacked Pope Leo, the patriarch of the Catholic Church, as being “terrible for foreign policy.” The social media assault comes as Pope Leo emerged as a vocal critic of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran. Christian Nationalism and Trump’s Weaponization of Religion The pope described Trump’s threat to destroy Iranian civilization as “truly unacceptable,” warning it amounted to “a threat against an entire people.” Pope Leo XIV also asked the U.S. rulers for some “deep reflection” on the treatment of migrants. Trump, Immigration, and ICE Trump responded in a post on Truth Social on Sunday…

The first year of the second Trump administration has been defined by an economic and foreign policy that treats the movement of people and goods around the globe as not merely suspect but actively harmful to Americans’ well-being. In January, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick set the bar for demonstrating how bizarre—and wrong—that logic is. While addressing the World Economic Forum’s annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, Lutnick declared that the decades-long project of economic liberalism had been, in fact, a terrible mistake. “The Trump administration and I are here to make a very clear point: Globalization has failed the West and…

In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. From campus arrests to banking shutdowns, dissent is no longer debated—it’s punished. Joshua Scheer The crackdown on dissent in the United States is no longer abstract—it’s operational. What was once framed as a battle over “misinformation” or “national security” is now materializing in something far more concrete: arrests, detentions, and the quiet financial suffocation of individuals who speak out.…

Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair. When we look at data on life expectancy, that seems like a reasonable question to ask. We can argue over the causes and mechanisms, but it is an undeniable fact that people in states that are controlled by Republicans have much shorter life expectancies than people who live in states controlled by Democrats. To make the story more interesting, I included some international comparisons. The first thing I should point out is that the international data are not entirely comparable to the data on life expectancies in US states. The international data are taken from the…

In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. Kenneth A. Carlson ScheerPost I was raised in Ohio, where scarlet red means two things. It means loyalty to the Ohio State Buckeyes, whose fans wear scarlet and gray with devout fervor. But it also means politics: a deep, durable red of grievance, conservatism and now Trumpism. In many towns, support for Donald Trump became less a preference than…

One day after submitting the bill for a 40 hour work week to Congress, Lula met with union leaders in Brasilia. On April 14, President Lula submitted a bill to Congress that, if passed, will reduce Brazil’s work week to 40 hours. It was submitted under the legal condition “constitutional urgency” meaning that Congress is required to bring it to a floor vote within 45 days. During a press conference the following day, Lula’s Chief of Staff, Guilherme Boulos (PSOL) said that he believes the measure will be passed within 3 months. The Lula administration has spent the last 3…