Publications - 2021-2026 - David Rosen Writes

2026

Today’s Hobos, CounterPunch, February 3, 2026.
Venezuela Attack: End of the Petrodollar?, CounterPunch, January 15, 2026.

2025

Porn is Still Legal: But For How Much Longer, CounterPunch, December 24, 2025.
Steps Toward a Trump Dictatorship?, CounterPunch, December 10, 2025.
Polyamorous Americans, CounterPunch, November 17, 2025.
Paleoconservatism: Hard-Right Zombies Rule, CounterPunch, November 11, 2025.
The Coup d’Etat of 2026?, CounterPunch, October 28, 2025.
The Revenge of the Manosphere, CounterPunch, October 14, 2025.
Return of the KKK?, CounterPunch, October 8, 2025.
Tyler Robinson: “Left Lunatic”?, CounterPunch, September 23, 2025.
The Politics of Extermination, CounterPunch, September 10, 2025.
Brendan Carr’s Mission to Remake the FCC, The Progressive, September 2, 2025.
A Socialist New York City?, CounterPunch, August 21, 2025.
Trump: M ake America White Again, CounterPunch, August 14, 2025.
Next Round In the Obscenity Wars, CounterPunch, July 7, 2025.
Trump: Bombs, Bullying, Bluster & BS, CounterPunch, June 25, 2025.
Trump Wants America Digitally Divided, The Progressive, June 2, 2025.
Jerry Falwell & the Christian Culture Wars, CounterPunch, May 28, 2025.
I Was (Almost) Scammed, Twice, CounterPunch, May 14, 2025.
Guantánamo: Decades of Detention, CounterPunch, April 23, 2025.
Trump & the New Eugenics Movement, CounterPunch, April 16, 2025.
Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America by Clay Risen, book review, New York Journal of Books, March 18, 2025.
Stephen Miller & Trump’s Presidency, CounterPunch, February 20, 2025.
What is Sin?, CounterPunch, February 12, 2025.
The Porn Wars: Round #2, CounterPunch, February 5, 2025
Abortion Wars Continue, CounterPunch, January 29, 2025.

2024

Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution, by Eva Payne, New York Journal of Books, December 28, 2024.
The FCC Under Trump, CounterPunch, December 26, 2024.
The Need for an Enemy, CounterPunch, December 11, 2024.
Next Round in the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, December 4, 2024.
“Inequality”: The Missing Word in the 2024 Election, CounterPunch, October 24, 2024.
The Threat of Christofascism, CounterPunch, October 17, 2024.
Nixon’s “War on Drugs” Was a Sham, CounterPunch, October 8, 2024.
Increasing Call for Secession, CounterPunch, September 24, 2024.
Other Live in the Big Apple, CounterPunch, September 18, 2024,
Is Israel Becoming a Form of Fascism?, CounterPunch, September 10, 2024.
Death by Incarceration, CounterPunch, August 14, 2024.
Comstock’s Revenge: Report 2025, CounterPunch, August 2, 2024.
Mr. President, Pardon the Truth Seeker, CounterPunch, July 24, 2024.
Trump on Immigrants: “They’re Not Humans, They’re Animals,” CounterPunch, July 16, 2024.
Will There Be Justice?, CounterPunch, June 13, 2024.
After Dobbs, Obergefell?, CounterPunch, June 5, 2024.
U.S. Christian Money Funds African Homophobia, CounterPunch, May 29, 2024.
Minority Rule: The Right-Wing Attack on the Will of the People – and the Fight To Resist It by Ari Berman, New York Journal of Books, May 27, 2024.
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr, New York Journal of Books, April 29, 2024.
Israel’s War Campaign: Systematic Devastation, Assassination and Stalemate, CounterPunch, April 18, 2024.
A Further Reckoning for Abu Ghraib, The Progressive, April 16, 2024
Trump’s Commercial Pleasures, CounterPunch, March 29, 2024.
Exporting Extremism, Church & State, March 28, 2024
Polyamory: Sex, Love & the Family, CounterPunch, February 1, 2024.
The Exonerated: How Many More Are Still Imprisoned, The Progressive, January 23, 2024.
American Poly: A History by Christopher M. Gleason, New York Journal of Books, January 22, 2024.
Gaza: What is Victory?, Counterpunch, January 10, 2024.
Revenge of the Repressed, Counterpunch, January 5, 2024

2023

Banned in America, Church & State Magazine, December 30, 2023.
The Mobile Phone: Anchor of Postmodern Life, CounterPunch, December 7, 2023.
From Concentration Camp to Concentration Territory, CounterPunch, November 27, 2023,
What Kind of Family is Yours?, CounterPunch, November 9, 2023.
Another Attempt at Net Neutrality, CounterPunch, October 26, 2023.
Telecom Scandal: The Great Excise Tax Scam, CounterPunch, October 5, 2023.
Fag Hag by Lola Miesseroff. New York Journal of Books, October 3, 2023.
Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr. Alex Comfort, author of The Joy of Sex by Eric Laursen. New York Journal of Books, August 22, 2023.
“5G,” ALEC and the U.S.’s Second-Rate Telecom System, CounterPunch, September 13, 2023.
The Clock Is Ticking: What Awaits the U.S. After the 2024 Election, CounterPunch, August 16, 2023.
Will Burning Comic Books Be Next?, CounterPunch, July 5, 2023.
Kinsey’s Revenge: What 75 Years Has Brought, CounterPunch, June 16, 2023.
The Great Panic: Trans-Sexuality and the Erosion of Patriarchy, CounterPunch, May 25, 2023.
Breaking Down AI Frenzy, The Progressive, May 11, 2023.
Comstock, Contraceptives & the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, April 17, 2023.
Americans Are Dying and Dying … and Dying, CounterPunch, April 13, 2013.
The Great Telecom Rip-Off, CounterPunch, March 23, 2012.
The New “Last Ditchers,” CounterPunch, March 9, 2023.
Biden’s Missing Word: Inequality, CounterPunch, February 23, 2023.
Lessons from Majid Khan’s Release from Guantánamo, The Progressive, February 16, 2023.
Preparing for War: The Extremist History of White Christian Nationalism — and What Comes Next by Bradley Onishi, New York Journal of Books, February 16, 2023.
Ron DeSantis: a 2024 Presidential Nightmare, CounterPunch, February 8, 2023.
2O23 Could be ‘The Year’ the FTC Takes on Big Tech, The Progressive, January 30, 2023.
Powell Memo: Start of the Counterrevolution, CounterPunch, January 20, 2023
The Cartel Economy and the Telecom Cartel, CounterPunch, January 5, 2023

2022

NYC Digital Redlining: A Tale of Woe, CounterPunch, December 7, 2022.
Sex, Culture Wars and a Republican Congress, CounterPunch, December 1, 2022,
Don’t Forget White Rage, CounterPunch, November 23, 2022
Secrets of an AT&T Scandal, CounterPunch, November 11, 2022.
One Year Later, Biden’s FCC Nominee Remains in Limbo, The Progressive, November 1, 2022.
Donald Trump and the End of the American Dream, CounterPunch, October 27, 202.
The “Mass Man” and the Specter of Fascism, CounterPunch, October 20, 2022.
Gender Nonconformity: Further Erosion of Patriarchy, CounterPunch, October 13, 2022.
Shut Out of the American Dream, The Progressive, October 5, 2022,
Youth Despair: End of the American Dream?, CounterPunch, September 26, 2022.
America: Land of Inequality, CounterPunch, September 8, 2022.
Sometimes You Just Want to Scream, CounterPunch, August 4, 2022.
Internet Privacy: The New Battleground for Abortion Rights, The Progressive, July 28, 2022.
21st Century Comstockery: Does History Repeat Itself, CounterPunch, July 13, 2022.
Seven Deadly Sins: Alive & Well in the U.S. of A., CounterPunch, June 30, 2022.
Ukrainian War and the New World Order, CounterPunch, June 23, 2022.
Corruption and Regulatory Capture, CounterPunch, June 9, 2022.
The Culture Wars After Wars, CounterPunch, June 2, 2022.
Abortion Wars Heat Up, CounterPunch, May 26, 2022.
Buffalo Shooting and the Great Replacement, CounterPunch, May 16, 2022.
Why Stop at Roe: What’s Next?, CounterPunch, May 10, 2022.
The New Censorship Wars, The Progressive, April 26, 2022.
The Neo-Liberal World Order May Be Over, CounterPunch, April 15, 2022.
AT&T Fumbles: the Tyranny of Big Telecom, CounterPunch, March 30, 2022.
The Culture Wars & the 2022 Congressional Election, CounterPunch, March 17, 2022.
The Scariest Couple in America: Clarence and Virginia Thomas, CounterPunch, March 9, 2022.
Dude, Where’s My High-Speed Internet?, The Progressive, March 4, 2022.
Digital Redlining or Digital Divides, CounterPunch, March 3, 2022.
Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire by Jonathan M. Katz, New York Journal of Books, February 14, 2022.
Net Neutrality Still Matters, CounterPunch, February 10, 2022.
The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future by Stephen Marche, New York Journal of Books, February 3, 2022.
The Rage of Political Terrorism, CounterPunch, February 3, 2022.
Bikeshares: From Provocation to Commodity, CounterPunch, January 27, 2022.
Who Are Trump’s Committed Insurrectionists?, The Progressive, January 14, 2022.
Profits Over People: Why Weren’t the Vaccine Manufacturers Nationalized?, CounterPunch, January 13, 2022.
A Warning: Will the 2024 Election End U.S. Democracy?, CounterPunch, January 6, 2022.

2021

Culture Wars: The Assault on Education, CounterPunch, December 20, 2021.
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age by Debbie Applegate, New York Journal of Books, November 29, 2021.
How the Federal Trade Commission Can Break Up Big Tech, The Progressive, November 24, 2021.
The Broadband Plan Will Not End the Digital Divide, CounterPunch, November 11, 2021.
Culture Wars: The Great Male Renunciation, CounterPunch, November 4, 2021.
Is “Progress” at a Standstill?,” CounterPunch, October 14, 2021.
America’s Broadband Crisis: Making of a 21st Century Cartel, Monthly Review, September 23, 2021.
Corporate Cartels Are Back, CounterPunch, September 24, 2021.
Cities Struggle to End the Urban Digital Divide, The Progressive, September 16, 2021.
Why Stop at Roe?, CounterPunch, September 16, 2021.
The End of White Hegemony?, CounterPunch, September 9, 2021.
U.S. Wars, Endless Wars: Will They Ever End?, CounterPunch, September 1, 2021.
Getting Connected, The Progressive, August-September 2021.
Biden’s Gambit: A Finger in the Dike, CounterPunch, August 27, 2021.
Anti-Vaxxers & the Unvaccinated: False Consciousness in a Time of Pandemic, CounterPunch, August 19, 2021.
Why Community Broadband Matters, CounterPunch, August 5, 2021.
Vengeance: Trump’s Republicans and the Deepening of the Culture Wars, CounterPunch, July 29, 2021.
When the Sh*t Hit the Fan: Recalling the 1970s, CounterPunch, July 21, 2021.
A New Progressive Era?, CounterPunch, July 8, 2021.
When a President Lies, CounterPunch, June 24, 2021.
Break-Up Big Tech? Amazon, a Public Utility?: Keep Your Fingers Crossed, CounterPunch, June 17, 2021.
Riots, Rebellions and Resistance: the Black Struggle Continues, CounterPunch, June 10, 2021.
Biden’s Gravest Challenge: White Resentment, CounterPunch, June 3, 2021.
What’s Happening with the Telecom Trust, CounterPunch, May 25, 2021.
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s, New York Journal of Books, May 24, 2021.
AT&T’s “Harvesting” Scam, CounterPunch, May 5, 2021.
Amazon Workers Defeat: The Trusts Are Back, CounterPunch, April15, 2021.
Republican Revenge: Targeting Gender Nonconforming Youth, CounterPunch, April 8, 2021.
Review, The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Quest to End Deafness by Katie Booth, New York Journal of Books, April 5, 2021.
An End to Broadband Inequality—or Just More of the Same?, The Progressive, April 3, 2021.
Atlanta Shooting: Sex, Race & the Politics of Repression, CounterPunch, March 24, 2021.
Thumb in the Dike: Homelessness & Deepening Inequality, CounterPunch, March 18, 2021.
Americans Are Suffering: Looking Beyond Covid-19, CounterPunch, March 11, 2021.
Electricity vs. Broadband: Does History Repeat Itself?, CounterPunch, March 4, 2021.
Confronting the Digital Divide: New York City vs. Verizon, CounterPunch, February 24, 2021,
The Culture Wars Continue: Biden Takes on Abortion, CounterPunch, February 19, 2021.
Covid-19: a Nation at War?, CounterPunch, February 11, 2021
Taking on Telecom’s ‘5G’, CounterPunch, February 3, 2021.
Why History Matters: The Legacy of Slavery, CounterPunch, January 25, 2021.
Review, The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War by Johathan Daniel Wells, New York Journal of Books, Januar 20, 2021.
Sen. Josh Hawley: The Face of New American Fascism, CounterPunch, January 13, 2021.