Monday, August 31, 2026

The US is ‘out of step’ on primate research with the rest of the...

While the European Union votes to phase out animal research, the United States wants more.

ReTrolligans—how the GOP risks all, miming ‘trollish’ gate-crashing, lying, bullying & chaos

With a daring experiment, the scheming, conspiracy-riven Republicans are testing whether morphing into a party of boorish trolls works.

When I was at law school with Clarence Thomas

I was in law school in 1973 when the Supreme Court decided Roe, protecting a pregnant person’s right to privacy under the 14th amendment to the Constitution.

US House of Representatives passes Women’s Health Protection Act

“The House has stepped in where the courts have failed us."

Reconciling profit and morality

Many companies, big and small, in the food economy are blazing a different path through Wall Street’s jungle of greed, demonstrating that money and morality can be compatible.

What should we do about the debt ceiling, and why should you care?

Fighting over whether to raise the debt ceiling is a dangerous distraction. Abolish it!

Supreme Court has set a date to hear Mississippi’s abortion case

“The fate of Roe v. Wade and legal abortion is on the line.”

Eugenics rears its unsavory head: Vaccine schism saves the intelligent & sacrifices the backward

Right-wing vaccine resistance could remove thousands of Trump voters in critical red states.

Federal court blocks government from expelling families from US under ‘Title 42’

“President Biden should have ended this cruel and lawless policy long ago, and the court was correct to reject it today.”

Favorite son? Eduardo Bolsonaro and the growing internationalism of the far right

One of the progressive left’s strengths has always been a willingness to offer support and learn from others around the globe, it's a mistake to cede internationalism to a xenophobic, ‘western culture’ obsessed right.