US Senate confirms Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to Supreme Court
Jackson will become the first Black woman and public defender to serve in 233 years.
Some early lessons from the war in Ukraine
"We will not give up, and we will not lose. We will fight till the end — at sea, in the air, we will continue fighting for our land whatever the cost. We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets."
Ukraine in perspective
A historical feast of death and destruction from the Peloponnesian Wars to late tomorrow night.
Right-wing Supreme Court justices ‘just further poisoned your water’
The move, said one attorney, "shows disregard for the integrity of the Clean Water Act and undermines the rights of tribes and states to review and reject dirty fossil fuel projects that threaten their water."
As US squanders $728.5 billion/ yr on Pentagon, China captures 65% of global EV...
The US Republican Party and their plus-one, Sen. Joe Manchin, are preventing the US from becoming the dominant automaker in the world in this decade by consistently shooting down the green energy and transportation provisions.
Supreme Court conservatives about to kill fair elections permanently
Our nation is at a legal and ethical crossroads, where we must choose between actual ‘rule of law,’ or the rule of ‘judicial capture.'
Are Iowa’s days as the nation’s first presidential nominating contest numbered?
The jockeying has begun over which mix of states might take part in a series of coordinated opening primaries for 2024’s Democratic nominee.
Struggling Democrats snub Trump’s core lesson: Winners address the emotionalism of voters
If the Democrats cannot bridge their plausible domestic agenda with a convincing, majority belief system, the future will lurch from crisis to crisis—or worse.
Is Joe Biden channeling Tom Paine?
The new White House budget plan echoes wealth tax perspectives over two centuries old.
NatCon kingmaker?
The most dangerous thing about rightwing populism or ‘National Conservatism’ is that the plutocrats that fund it and have become its standard bearers pretend that they have the interests of working people at heart.