false dichotomy by charles davis

Jim Naureckas of an organization called Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting, which cares about fairness, and accuracy, in reporting, i...

I didn't used to see tents when I moved to Koreatown two years ago, but when the city of Los Angeles revealed that there's been an ...

The only thing that sucks more than having a job is not having but needing one -- and as I note in my latest piece for The Baffler , there a...

The Los Angeles Police Commission said the two LAPD officers who in August 2015 shot and killed an unarmed, mentally man named Ezell Ford ...

Last month, I attended a protest outside a Nestlé water-bottling facility in South Los Angeles and spoke to a woman in an orangutan mask w...

I read and then wrote things about journalist Jonathan Littell's account of his trip to Syria in January 2012. Read those things at Inte...

I had two pieces published recently by Inter Press Service: One is (nominally) a review of Muhammad Idrees Ahmad's new book seeking to ...

Medea Benajamin and I make the anti-imperialist case for Hillary Clinton. Or do we? Guess you'll have to read it .

Pieces I wrote: “America Helped Make the Islamic State ,” by Charles Davis (August 12, 2014) “ Israel's War on Palestine: It's B...

Israel : Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likened Hamas to al Qaeda, ISIS and other extremist Islamist groups Tuesday as he imp...

As a writer, it’s always nice to find that something you wrote did not just disappear into the worldwide abyss, but was actually read by s...

When you write for the same outlet for a year or two, you end up building a rapport with the editor you deal with, a relationship that, ov...

The New York Review of Books has a . . . review . . . of a book . . . about the 1939-1941 alliance between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union...

Saudi Arabia began bombing its neighbor, Yemen, on March 26 , responding to a call from the country's unelected president, Abd-Rabbu ...

" The Starving of Yarmouk, Then the Capture " After Bashar al-Assad’s regime spent nearly two years massacring Palestinians in Y...

I spoke to a left-wing activist in Moscow about the state of the opposition in Russia, what's happening in Ukraine, and whether one for...

The United States may have pulled its personnel out of Yemen, but its allies are continuing its ignoble tradition of carrying out war crime...

Reuters reports on the liberation of Tikrit : "They waved their knives in the air, to cheers from the crowd, and chanted: 'We wil...