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Publications – 2021-2025

2025

  • Next Round In the Obscenity Wars, CounterPunch, July 7, 2025.
  • Trump: Bombs, Bullying, Bluster & BS, CounterPunch, June 25, 2025.
  • Trump Want 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.

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