Politics

Democracy is about means, while dictatorship is about ends. Trump uses any means available to achieve his own ends.

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.

Behind the billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch, Competitive Enterprise Institute sued the government in a new challenge to Obamacare. And it's all over an aspect of the law dealing with tax subsidies. Now millions of people's healthcare coverage is in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The agency tried to hand the repeal to Congress instead of going through its own rulemaking process.

A better country and world is possible.

When, pray tell, comes the knockout punch,/ Who and what gobbles Donald’s lunch? Come what, come may, let sleazebags boast:/ No miracle looms—this mob is toast.

If we are fortunate, and enough citizens out there vote this terrible and criminal administration out of office, then we on the ‘Real Left’ have our work cut out for us.

Who knows what a mad king will do when no adults remain to supervise him?

So kudos to today’s rightwing bellicosity for making clear the U.S. unilaterally wields deadly, rapacious power, whether sensible or stupid or gratuitous.

Principles of goodness together with the golden seed of social justice – sharing – need to be the guiding ideals of a radically redesigned socio-economic paradigm.