Monday, May 25, 2026

Supreme Court blocks Trump’s ’emergency’ tariffs

The Court ruled that the IEEPA does not grant the president authority to levy tariffs, as that power belongs exclusively to Congress under the Constitution.

Trump threatens destruction of Iran’s ‘whole civilization’ as calls grow for removal from office

Lawmakers, legal scholars, and advocacy groups say the president’s public threat against Iran’s civilian population raises urgent questions of genocide, war crimes, and presidential fitness.

Okay to be #2 – Lessons for America and China

The geopolitical rivals need to abandon the obsession to be #1, prioritize sustainable growth, focus on cooperation, and find a way to defuse the escalating tensions.

The Iran war as a threshold

The old structures are not simply failing; they are being surpassed by a deeper aspiration emerging from people themselves.

Progressive Briefing for Wednesday, September 12

Energy Transfer pipeline explodes in Pennsylvania, Trump calls Puerto Rico an 'unsung success', the fight against world hunger, and more.

Why the Founders Would Decry What America has Become

If the Founding Fathers saw what the United States has become, they would be devastated. Poverty, income inequality, suppression of speaking ones mind, crime, war, and oligarch like behaviors all make up this new U.S. It is far from being the democracy it was created as.

Trump’s Iran war drives more than $100 billion to fossil fuel giants as global...

Analysis finds oil and gas price spikes linked to the conflict have shifted massive wealth from households and businesses to major energy companies while lawmakers propose taxing windfall profits.

Just desserts: MAGA suicide pact climaxes its cult of destruction

The more bizarre the MAGA fable,/ The more desperate to finagle. Can hypocrites throttling the Bible/ Not make its movement suicidal?

Portugal, Sanders, and discussing socialism in the Democratic party

Most Americans are not aware that in the last four years Portugal has buttressed its socialism programs, abandoned economic austerity, and improved its economy greatly. Sanders programs would do that as well.

Does not our ongoing, epic failure to obstruct immorality confirm America as an immoral...

What morally deficient country tolerates blatant wickedness without rising up to avert the next outrage? His re-election was bad enough; tolerance of evil is worse.