The nasty voices in our heads
The paranoid nature of American foreign and domestic policy.
Nasa’s second nuclear vision
Is America’s future in space nuclear?
Mike Pence sees a ‘real opportunity’ to gut health care for poor people
Trump’s White House will likely go along with efforts to block grant Medicaid.
Major victory for Pennsylvania: Supreme Court rules state’s gerrymandered congressional map violates state constitution
It is time for voters to choose politicians rather than politician choosing voters.
Screwing With and Screwing the Elderly and Disabled
The American people should be demanding annual benefit adjustments that reflect the real world confronted by the elderly and disabled and not simply the fantasies of political hacks in Congress.
Reality, not foes, undermines Trump’s legitimacy
Trump’s opening gambit focuses public attention not on real policy or legislation (still a great void) but whether this chief executive is simply an impulsive, erratic narcissist – or much worse, so unstable he could dislodge current, fragile power balances, here and abroad.
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.
The man who would be president: Mike Pence, corporate theocrat
Whether Pence has truly served God is a subjective matter, but his massive service to money — big money — is incontrovertible.
By the best definition, the poverty rate should be tripled
But poverty deniers won't look deeper, because they don't want to admit that anyone willing to work could be suffering in the richest country in the world.
Forty-four states refuse to release private voter info to Trump commission
Instead of protecting the privacy of voters or the integrity of fair elections, Trump continues to waste time and resources on a fiction that he has failed to prove time and again.