Of Caesar, guns and trolls: The evil that men do
The GOP and right wing will use any diversion to distract us from an agenda of cruelty and madness.
The Chomsky challenge for Americans
Americans might want to learn how to take Chomsky’s challenge – imagine ourselves in others’ situation – before it’s too late to imagine anything at all.
Progressive Briefing for Monday, August 20, 2018
U.S. prisoners organize massive prison strike, Catholic leaders do damage control, ICE detains a man driving his pregnant wife to the hospital to give birth, and more.
The inequality to be suffered by our children
Unless progressive policies are demanded by American voters, most of our children and grandchildren will suffer from the continuing expansion of a Great-Depression-like wealth gap that already "dwarfs" the rest of the developed world.
Hundreds of cops are in extremist Facebook groups. Why haven’t their departments done anything...
“Leadership always sets the tone for how an agency moves forward.”
Denouncing corporate climate profiteers, comedy icon Lily Tomlin arrested at #FireDrillFriday protest in DC
"These corporations are making oodles of money on the front end, oodles of money on the back end. It is beyond reprehensible."
The First Amendment goes wild
The use of money has no real limitations and the state should not be providing it to churches or their subsidiaries.
Noam Chomsky on Pittsburgh attack: Revival of hate is encouraged by Trump’s rhetoric
The nation is continuing to grieve the 11 Jewish worshipers who were gunned down at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh Saturday in what’s being described as the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
Global Indigenous Peoples March set to fight human rights violations and climate crisis
"We must remind the world, again, that Indigenous people matter. We are all made better when we respect one another and lift each other up."
Honoring two men just brought down by the coronavirus pandemic
John Prine and Bernie Sanders have left a legacy, the importance of which cannot be ignored.