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

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

On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg talk with Leona Morgan about nuclear colonialism in the Southwest and beyond.

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

The government shutdown is …taking over the political conversation…But I urge everyone not to overlook the dangerous speech Donald Trump (and Pete ...

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

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

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 ...

What is happening in Italy regarding Gaza is unprecedented in the history of solidarity between the country and any other international cause anywhere. A ...

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.” — ...

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 ...