COVID-19 and the end of autocrats
The outbreak of COVID-19 initially looked like a gift to autocrats around the world — until they botched it.
Trump’s COVID: Empathy for the world’s least empathetic person?
Out of respect. He’s a human being. And he’s our president.
Koch-funded hit piece backfires: Shows Medicare For All would save ‘whopping $2 trillion’ over...
"Even if you take the report's headline figures at face value, the picture it paints is that of an enormous bargain. We get to insure every single person in the country..."
The minute Trump leaves office, investigators must pounce
This highly dangerous, very emotionally unstable man, who has committed various crimes, must not be allowed to walk away from them and continue to be a threat to this country and its democracy.
DC Council votes to repeal Initiative 77; will take away voter-approved wage increase for...
"It is incredibly sad to see the Council representing one of the most progressive cities in the country siding with the wealthy restaurant industry over their own constituents."
Trump’s new foreign policy is the worst of both worlds
It's blustery nationalism plus the conventional pieties of the foreign policy establishment.
Message to Millennials
On November 6, you have the power to alter the course of American politics...
Failed States and States of Failure
We have no idea what it means at this point in history to turn a region, city by city, country by country, into something like a vast failed state and then continue to bomb the rubble.
Leftist presidential candidate’s landslide win promises clean sweep of Pinochet’s fascist legacy
Chileans turned out in large numbers in a dramatic run-off election between a hard-right open admirer of Pinochet named Antonio Kast and a 35-year old leftist and veteran of a decade of protest actions against the government, Gabriel Boric.
Sanders joins union leaders and healthcare workers in protesting ‘corporate greed’-fueled private equity sale...
"People will get hurt, and they will die as a direct result of this one man's action."