Saturday, November 7, 2026

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director announces resignation

Richard Cordray has become the latest high-ranking U.S. official to step aside in frustration with the Trump administration.

Why is Trump trying to kill a small agency with a big impact on...

Many Americans probably have never heard of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. But they’re safer because of it.

Russian propaganda? The new era of mainstream conspiracy theory

While it is true that Russia, China and other rival countries engage in espionage and propaganda, their efforts to change American minds pale in comparison to the stenography of the US and other Western media.

Populism of the 1%: Why the same billionaires are behind Trump and Brexit

These complex ties reveal a clear and resounding message.

The two decades that created our world’s first mass middle class

If we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.

Bernie Sanders and progressives in our winter of discontent

Bernie Sanders was the catalyst for galvanizing the grassroots progressive power that propelled his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. As this century enters its third decade, the torch needs to be grasped by others to lead the way.

EU votes to label gas and nuclear power investments as ‘green’

"Russia’s war against Ukraine is a war paid for by climate-heating fossil fuels and the European parliament just voted to boost billions of funding to fossil gas from Russia."

Turning space into a war zone: Space Force Missile Defense review

“It is not enough to merely have an American presence in space, we must have American dominance in space.”

‘Hope is not a strategy,’ but neither is despairing doom and gloom – axing...

The future looms as long as we live, breathe and think. "History" is knowable only after the fact.