What will we remember of 2022?
Let me start 2022 by heading back — way, way back — for a moment.
It’s easy to forget...
‘Can’t afford’ build back better? US billionaires saw $1 trillion wealth boom in 2021...
A new analysis out Tuesday shows that the nearly 750 billionaires in the United States saw their combined wealth soar by $1 trillion in 2021,...
Selling out democracy for political influence
One year ago, the foundation of our democracy was jeopardized in a full-blown coup attempt by seditionists egged on by former president...
The end of US
When does a country stop being a country?
This critical moment takes place before a civil war breaks out...
Occupy Biden demonstrates how to hold politicians accountable
A coalition completed a weeklong occupation of land close to the President’s home with two demands: that he declare a climate emergency and that he stop any new fossil fuel projects.
Yearly wrap: Handful of good, loads of bad, onslaughts of ugly
Thus, the ugliest consequence to wasting billions on Pentagon missiles rather than funding education—stupidity—is a greater threat even than climate change.
Pink tide rising? Gabriel Boric wins power in Chile, birthplace of neoliberalism
Barring coups and outside meddling, Latin America may see another ‘pink tide’ that brings even more progressive change than the one earlier in this century.
New Hampshire abortion ban to go into effect January 1st
“To be clear, an abortion ban is dangerous. It’s the first abortion ban in modern New Hampshire history.”
Thanks to the Infrastructure bill, the US will work on replacing all lead water...
“The American Jobs Plan creates jobs replacing 100% of the nation’s lead pipes and service lines so every American, so every child – can turn on the faucet and be certain to drink clean water.”
Can Trumpist fascism commandeer America, today’s richest, ‘exceptional,’ freedom-loving empire?
How can an unteachable blunderer—failing every presidential crisis, many self-created, pull off the most improbable, fascist lurch since the 19th century?