Wednesday, August 26, 2026

How the Pentagon devours the budget

While the Trump administration is preparing to launch full-scale assaults on food stamps, Medicaid, and Medicare, it’s war on everything except the U.S. military.

Emperor Trump? The case for impeachment

Mr. Trump’s failure to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution is cause enough for impeachment.

Veterans groups condemn Trump as ‘a national disgrace’ over reports he called fallen soldiers...

Trump denied the comments attributed to him in The Atlantic, writing—falsely—that he never called late Republican Sen. John McCain a "loser."

Progressive Briefing for Friday, July 6, 2018

Scott Pruitt resigns from the EPA, grassroots groups demand tech companies cut ties with ICE, a 20-foot-tall Trump blimp gets the okay in London, and more.

The surge delusion

An Iraq War anniversary to forget.
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World laughs at Trump as he boasts about himself in UN address threatening Iran,...

“What’s amazing is not that this hall of seasoned professionals laughed at him, but that he doesn’t get more laughter in the United States."

America rejects Trumpism

The vast majority of Americans are now anti-establishment, and understandably so.
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10 Reasons Marco Rubio is no Moderate

Marco Rubio is said to be somewhat moderate, but Robert Reich says differently. Here’s why...

Analysis highlights Biden proposal to end $84 billion gift to big oil buried in...

“We can stop this insane corporate welfare and use it to pay for a renewable energy future.”

The psychology of the wall

Wall are cropping up all over the world. But as with guns, the sense of safety and security that comes from a wall is almost entirely illusory.