Entering Uncharted Territory in Washington
As the latest heat records indicate, we are, for the first time, on a planet in decline. And if that isn’t uncharted territory, what is?
Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #3: Expand Social Security
U.S. senior citizens who paid into Social Security their whole lives deserve to reap the benefits from it upon retirement. If the wealthy paid their fair share in taxes this would not even be an issue to discuss.
One mass shooting and New Zealand’s prime minister bans assault rifles
"We are announcing action today on behalf of all New Zealanders to strengthen our gun laws and make our country a safer place."
Firm of top Biden advisor Anita Dunn works for fracked gas giant Dominion Energy
“Joe Biden has called climate change an existential threat and in the coming weeks will release a bold proposal that addresses climate change in a lasting and meaningful way.”
A New Species of Jumping Beans
And The Powers That Be wonder why an angry populist rebellion is spreading like a prairie fire.
Hillary Clinton’s Flat and Misleading Foreign Policy Speech
If Hillary wins the presidency, she will be much like Brezhnev and Andropov, senior apparatchiks of an empire in denial of its own precipitous decline.
Worshiping markets, genuflecting to grand fortune
Our conventional political wisdom, here in the United States, tends to see utopians as lefty egalitarians of one sort or another, clueless...
OGADEN: Ethiopia’s Hidden Shame
The film records the distressing stories of three extraordinary young women, Anab, Maryama and Fatuma.
Just 6% of US House seats expected to be competitive thanks to rigged maps
The vast majority of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives are becoming non-competitive.
America’s biggest economic problem isn’t China
Xi Jinping might possibly agree this weekend when he meets Donald Trump on further steps to bring down China’s trade imbalance with...