Sunday, August 30, 2026

The U.S. Senate is a global problem

The acquittal of Trump was bad, but the Senate's approach to foreign affairs over the years has been even worse.

Fixed in stone: Here’s the WallopaLoser for the ages

As low as Trump has driven the country, the Georgia senate triumphs represent a remarkable, improbable bounce off the bottom.

Meet the Canadian aiding Trump’s ‘insane’ war on climate science

Ross McKitrick claims his views have long been ‘overlooked.’ Now his work is helping guide the MAGA assault on climate regulations.
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Meet one of the sexual assault survivors who confronted Jeff Flake & triggered FBI...

The women held open the elevator door, telling Flake, through their tears, that he was dismissing their pain.

Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #5: How to Reinvent Education

We’re paying investment bankers hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars a year to make money for Wall Street. We ought to be paying educators and staff a decent wage to develop and guide the nation’s human capital – an investment that would benefit everyone.

For-Profit Colleges Are Scandal Machines

This corrupt higher education "industry" ought to be put out of business.

Reading obituaries

Murders in the age of Donald Trump.

If not courts, juries and the rule of law, then what?

If America is battered, even demoted as a world power, then what?

The democratic platform heads in right direction on criminal justice, but still misses the...

The Democratic platform fails in some respects to meet the demands of the moment and misses the opportunity to provide a home for the millions of Americans looking for transformational change of a criminal legal system rooted in white supremacy and racism.

Million Student March To Demand Answers On Debt Reduction

Let’s join these young people in their search for a better future – and then take their demands into the political debate.