Friday, October 30, 2026

The Choice Ahead: A Private Health-Insurance Monopoly or a Single Payer

If we continue in the direction we’re headed we’ll soon have a health insurance system dominated by two or three mammoth for-profit corporations capable of squeezing employees and consumers for all they’re worth – and handing over the profits to their shareholders and executives.

A New Species of Jumping Beans

And The Powers That Be wonder why an angry populist rebellion is spreading like a prairie fire.

Right-Wing Media Smear Sanders With ‘Ridiculous’ Comparison To Nazi Ideology

Right-wing media have been smearing Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who identifies himself as a democratic socialist, by comparing his ideology to that of Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. Experts have called the comparison “inaccurate,” “outrageous,” and “a trivialization of history.”

US-led endless war and overseas attacks funded by tax payers’ money

"It's devastating to know who paid for it: we did."

Flynn’s facts: Get to know Trump’s pick for national security advisor

An uncharitable person might conclude that Flynn is seeking revenge against enemies in the previous Administration.

Trump’s pledge to separate his business from the presidency lasted two days

With his kids running his company and transition team, there will be no wall between the Trump administration and Trump Organization.

EPA to shut down open data service Friday

President Trump’s administration continues to wipe Obama-era climate initiatives off the Internet.

Tabloid Takedown of Bernie Sanders

What explains the unrepentant disdain the elite media cast on Sanders’ bold ideas and insurgent campaign? In short, class.

Blurring the lines: Phony leftists and the populist right pipeline

Most of those who consider themselves on the progressive left instinctively understand that they are in an ideological battle with two powerful forces.

Hillary Clinton’s Inaugural Address

Here’s what we’d like to hear her say before Donald Trump takes office — a call for a shadow government that will watchdog everything he and Congress do.