Friday, October 30, 2026

The invisible candidate and the progressive lion

As Americans on the progressive left might have expected, the one politician who is responding with the seriousness and the kind of reassuring competence that his fellow citizens need in such a difficult time, is Bernie Sanders.

Trump’s EPA rolls back regulation of chemical linked to brain damage in infants that...

“Is this what the Environmental Protection Agency has come to?”

QAnon pop quiz: How to rank American Presidents

There are no trick questions. The same does not go for the answers.

Return of the railroad robber baron

If you don’t pay me $300 million, the new CEO at CSX is threatening, I’ll let your workers keep their jobs.

Socialism, Capitalism, Or …?

Can we create socialism within capitalism, or capitalism within socialism?

Why democracies in G7 & NATO should reject US leadership

Ordinary people in other countries are right to be wary of the Pied Piper of American “leadership,” but their rulers should be too.

US Coast Guard demands Taylor Energy clean up 14 year oil spill or face...

"The time to clean this up was 14 years ago. Taylor Energy has shown nothing but negligence all this time."

Trump’s spectacle misdirects us from our government’s destruction

Trump provides the bizarre behavior that will get us to “Look over there!” And while we’re all gazing at the shiny object, the pro-corporate and anti-worker agenda unfolds.

How Consumer Culture Is Killing Citizenship

We live in a society where market values spread without limit, in which we are branding and selling ourselves along with everything else, including public office. How do we stop it?