Monday, August 31, 2026

Let’s recall what exactly Paul Manafort and Rudy Giuliani were doing in Ukraine

Russia has been working for years to influence and undermine the independence of its smaller neighbor. And some Americans have played a role in that.

Is Trump Not Already Our Greatest Political Hustler?

That Trump’s flummery has staggered the GOP wing nut field, hardly teeming with truth-tellers, then forged frontrunner status — that confirms truly championship hustling. What other charlatan with zero elected experience ever got this close? And imagine the bomb President Trump would drop on history, taking America down a road it’s never gone before.

Clean Hands, Dirty Hands… No Hands!

Seven years ago Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick wrote a book (and Stone followed with a 10 part series on The Showtime...

How badly will Trump trash the GOP? Truly, ‘Everything he touches dies.’

With the inevitability of Greek tragedy, Trump’s fate is not for me a mystery: he will go down, and hard, and the only question that remains: will the hijacked Republican follow suit?

Republicans should never again recite the Pledge of Allegiance

Republicans are not showing loyalty but, rather, clearly exhibiting disloyalty.

2020 Vision: Four Steps to Get There

The progressive vision for 2020 is focused on the needs of average working people, on the strength of society rather than on winner-take-all individualism, on the cooperative efforts of underpaid people who have been forced out of the middle class.

Ebell: Purge necessary at EPA to rid ‘scientists who believe the global warming alarmist...

Ebell believes the EPA has been staffed with scientists who “believe the global-warming alarmist agenda.”

Clinton’s Attacks on Bernie Sanders Backfire

Bernie Sanders has shrunk Clinton's lead in the polls and raised over $1.4 million in campaign contributions since the "panic attacks" began.

Look Who’s Buying American Democracy

How much more evidence do we need that our system is in crisis? How long before we make it work for all of us instead of a handful at the top? We must not let them buy our democracy.

The Democratic party lost its soul. It’s time to win it back.

The party must transform itself from a fund-raising machine into a movement.