‘Now is the time to be angry’: Afghanistan’s progressive past and dark present
A personal reflection on the 'Big Men' who've meddled in Afghanistan -- and the women navigating the aftermath.
‘Protest and decades of struggle:’ Long Island is nuclear-free today
Because of that 1979 protest and decades of painstaking and difficult struggle, LILCO was stopped in its nuclear push – and Long Island today is nuclear-free.
The Real Reckoning
Donald Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. He is the loudest and clearest warning shot across the bow of the current American political-economic system.
Suicidal Rethugs gift Dems by reducing elections to absurdly simple choices: Want truth or...
Dems should simply repeat, “Do you want Trump in charge when the next global disease event strikes”?
Fundamentalist pandemics
Whether in America or Iran, fundamentalist religion often made for dismally bad public policy during the first wave of COVID-19.
Nader calls for a new 1 percent
In his latest book, the critic and activist proposes the creation and activation of a new 1 percent – one that will expose “conditions of deprivation and abuse” and champion “basic fair play.”
The future by committee
The collective "wisdom" of the U.S. intelligence community.
For-profit presidency: New Yorker Mag reveals Trump family’s frenzy to cash in on the...
According to Kirkpatrick, Donald Trump and his immediate family have made $3.4 billion from his time in the White House, including more than $2.3 billion from various cryptocurrency ventures alone.
At the Federal Election Commission, no watchdog for the watchdogs
“A thoughtful, constructive IG can improve the agency.”
Candidates for 2015’s “Hypocrite of the Year”
There are so many candidates. But the people included here stand out in their various areas of nefarious behavior: warmaking, tax avoidance, consumer gouging, environmental destruction, and criminal arrogance.