Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's insistence on implementing hazing and returning basic training to a 1950’s set of standards is not leadership. It’s nuts. Hegseth will alienate and dismiss our next ...

This article appears in the December 2025 issue of The American Prospect magazine. Subscribe here. Dear Capitalism (if I can even call you that anymore), I am writing to you via your AI assistant ...

Dr. Carlos Chaccour at the University of Navarra says AI-written letters to the editor are on the rise in academic journals, raising questions about authenticity, accountability, and the future of ...

Note: The following was written by a Mexican comrade of Insurgent Notes, in response to an inquiry about a very upbeat Financial Times assessment, in the late spring, of the Mexican economy under the ...

I’m a letter writer. Like my mother before me and her mother before her, I regularly put pen to paper. I know this makes me unusual: most Americans haven't written a personal letter in years. The ...

“It’s grim.” Plus, attempting to tar Talarico; another culture warrior goes a-griftin’; and tracking the victims of Trump’s bombing campaign. “I want you to understand what it is like to live in ...

Anyone taking the south-bound night train into Baltimore glimpses a memorable vista as the train comes into the city, passing blocks of boarded up row houses and desolate streets on the city’s working ...

A version of this article first appeared in the Reno Gazette Journal on April 11, 2004. The folklore is that the hillside letters found in the American West were created to help early 20th-century ...

Questionable behavior on social media transcends party lines. In this column, we have written about Bishop Robert Barron; fact-checked Tim Busch; and condemned online heresy emerging from the Trump ...

The letter invokes the words of NYC Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, who opposed Mamdani’s mayoral election in a recent sermon. As the New York mayoral election draws near, more than 850 rabbis and cantors from ...

We write to express our deep appreciation to you for meeting with our group of international human rights organizations during the U.N. General Assembly to discuss the human rights situation in ...

Human Rights Watch stands with civil society and signed this letter, alongside more than 3700 other organizations, condemning the Trump administration’s attacks. It is a testament to our community’s ...