Saturday, July 12, 2025

Improving public education

As we know, education has become ever more expensive over the last 40 years. Teachers' salaries have declined, and school expenses have risen.

Republicans screw themselves: Damned if they do, damned if they don’t!

With modest audacity, I project February 2020 could in a few years represent the peak of national Republican power.

White supremacist Coast Guard Lt. sentenced to prison on gun and drug charges

“There is little if any doubt he was planning a mass casualty assault to further his white nationalist views."

First Assange, now Greenwald: The growing attacks on adversarial journalism

It’s unlikely that Greenwald, who at least has the benefit of widespread fame and international support, will be the last journalist to be targeted.

Capitalism in America: The coming crisis

In the Trump era, we are being told that deficits don’t matter—and neither, of course, do the facts.

Bernie surges on

I don't know if Bernie will be nominated, but his latest surge in the polls puts him ahead in Iowa, N.H., and Nevada. Biden leads in South Carolina.

10 things you should know about socialism

Socialism is a yearning for something better than capitalism.

Corporate media are the real ‘Sanders attack machine’

The real Sanders attack machine isn’t the mythical machine run by Sanders to take down his opponents; it’s run by the establishment Democrats and their media counterparts to take down Sanders.

Sanders introduces bill aimed to combat corporate polluters and clean up toxic drinking water

“It is not a radical idea to demand that when people in the world’s richest country turn on their taps, the water they drink is free of toxic chemicals.”

Stopping climate change

We should “think outside the box” to arrive at solutions that eliminate climate change as best we can.