Politics

Donald Trump is degrading the core institutions and values of our democracy. But America is fighting back.

The first presidential debate was as horrific as we feared it would be.

The issues facing the US in a presidential election year are simply too important for the candidates to ignore. And yet, while this suggests that they need to display policy mastery and even, now and again, genuine statesmanship, they are instead merely assuring voters that they will “keep us safe.”

One researcher reports that local farmers believed the bomb was nuclear and that they’d been exposed to radiation.

That Trump’s flummery has staggered the GOP wing nut field, hardly teeming with truth-tellers, then forged frontrunner status — that confirms truly championship hustling. What other charlatan with zero elected experience ever got this close? And imagine the bomb President Trump would drop on history, taking America down a road it’s never gone before.

CounterSpin interview with James Love on Bill Gates & vaccine politics...

Yesterday's ruling by the Supreme Court "clears the way for our office to investigate Exxon's conduct toward consumers and investors."

If we wish to have the change needed inside of this empire, beginning with the election of our representatives, we need to take ALL PRIVATE MONEY OUT OF POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS!

"We cannot continue to spend taxpayer dollars on the President’s manufactured crisis at the border, which is government-sanctioned child abuse."

Not only did the wealth of U.S. billionaires grow, but so did their numbers: in March of last year, there were 614 Americans with 10-figure bank accounts. Today there are 745.