Why a new progressive era in America is likely—in about 20 years
All these trends point to a new progressive America.
2024: Dread and hope
Saving our civilization from impending environmental disaster is perhaps the one issue capable of uniting us.
What is more evil than pure evil?
“Rationalization is the evil step-brother of rationality.”
Are the best years of my country behind me?
Reflections on a long-ago tour of Los Alamos and the Trinity Atomic Test Site.
When do wary Dems take down the rightwing ‘terrorist front’ with a fierce battle...
Start by calling the Republican Party a terrorist organization, with unholy alliances to autocratic, racist extremism backing violent, fascist rule.
Texas GOP’s top anti-groomer crusader resigns over sexual misconduct with teenage aide
The lawmaker was facing an expulsion hearing after an internal investigation found he had furnished a 19-year-old staffer with alcohol and later tried to intimidate her into silence about what transpired and their relationship.
Can the U.S. adjust sensibly to a multipolar world?
“Unless U.S. foreign policy is changed to recognize the need for a multipolar world, it will lead to more wars, and possibly to World War III.”
How to stop Republicans from tanking the economy over the debt ceiling
If Republicans are going to play this game, Mr. President, you need to play hard ball.
Confederate-style states’ rights tantrums rise again—and will fall again to enlightened federalism
Either federalism determines “self-evident” human rights, or the Constitutional republic model turns farce, with 50 different state law clusters.
Garland, Smith, Willis: Like watching grass trying to grow on the rock-solid ground in...
America’s full-of-holes System of Justice that Trump has beaten like a drum for quite some time now is like watching grass trying to grow on hard ground in the winter.