City Will Offer Free Showers and Restrooms for Homeless People
Homeless people in Santa Rosa will soon have access to bathrooms and showers.
Iran Deal: Do the Critics Want War?
Republican critics of the Iran nuclear agreement draft have long time favored war over negotiation, preparing talking points against any eventual deal. So what will their bad advice cost us this time around?
Doing God’s Work – Why Bernie Matters for New York, America, and the World
If you break up a bank, you break up its ability to scam the public, to stuff loans into fraudulently presented toxic assets and trade them to unsuspecting pension funds.
Obama Should Heed Hiroshima’s Survivors
Obama will be the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, Japan.
Congress should be ready to arrest Attorney General Barr if he defies subpoena
If Congress cannot question the people who are making policy, or obtain critical documents, Congress cannot function as a coequal branch of government.
America, a nation teetering on the edge
The kind of question we the people of America should be asking ourselves, “Can we get along? Why is it that we can’t get along?”
U.S. is a classic empire and is becoming a repressive police state at home
As I set out to fly home from the UK on Monday following a short film project in Cambridge, I found my...
For the Wealthy, a Taxing New Worry
“The current tax code has become an echo chamber for the economic forces driving the increase in income and wealth inequality, the blurring of economic and political influence, and the degradation of paid work.”
Russia bombs Kyiv and other major cities in massive attack on Ukraine
The assault was seen as retaliation for a deadly blast that damaged a key bridge linking Russia with Crimea, an explosion that Russian President Vladimir Putin called an "act of terrorism" by Ukraine.
When an elected government falls in South America, as in Bolivia today, look for...
History shows us that U.S. antipathy towards independent progressive leaders generally results in U.S.-sponsored subversion and military coups.