House vote on defense bill pushes annual military spending past $1 trillion
House advances $893 billion defense policy as culture war riders and audit penalties collide with pay raises, troop increases, and a looming Senate clash.
Trumpcare is the best advertisement for nationalizing insurance
The only proper response to the vicious brutality that is Trumpcare is to punish the insurance companies who bought and paid for the congressmen that voted it in.
Cut the defense budget: Rep. Khanna on bloated Pentagon spending, ending war in Yemen,...
“If you’re ending the forever war in Afghanistan … then why are we increasing, at the same time, the defense budget?”
Democracy depends on broad-based taxation—history is clear about that
When governments depend on internal taxation, bargaining is required. Taxes are not simply extracted; they are negotiated, enforced, justified, and institutionalized.
Tweeter-in-Chief versus the wisdom of Robert E. Lee
If only we had a leader with such self-effacing wisdom today, when bigots feel newly empowered to incite civil strife in our nation.
Bernie Sanders to Trump: “We will fight you every step of the way” on...
“Mr. Trump, you cannot run a government by rejecting science.”
Corporate Clintonism triggered Trumpery, still corrodes democratic leverage
Have entrenched Democratic leadership truly understood they don’t need grasping, billionaire PAC money – or that Clintonesque stench still pollutes the party brand?
Clinging bitterly to guns and religion
What will it take to convince Americans to turn their backs on empire and war before it’s too late?
Muslim Woman Ejected from Trump Rally as Crowd Hurls Epithets
A Muslim woman wearing a shirt which read “Salam, I come in peace” was forcibly ejected from a Donald Trump rally Friday night as some supporters of the 2016 presidential candidate reportedly hurled Islamophobic epithets at her.
When empires fall
The United States’ reign as an Empire is coming to an end.