The unbearable opportunism of right-wing fear-mongering
What evil to bash good elections—while pushing scams and insurrections.
California to pull National Guard from border
“This whole border issue is a manufactured crisis. We are not interested in participating in this political theater."
Two European elections show that rightwing populism is still a force
Le Pen’s first round win, her second in two elections, and Orban’s 4th in Hungary show that rightwing populism remains a potent force in European politics.
How Bernie Could Lose the Nomination But Win the Convention
Sanders is likely to reach the convention with more than 25 percent of the total delegates. That is enough, under convention rules, to force a “minority report” out of the platform committee.
Why is Washington still pushing the trans-pacific partnership?
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) embodies the stacked deck. It was negotiated in secret of, by and for the global corporations.
(Belief in) this lie called Democracy
So long as we continue to allow private money into electoral politics, there will never be the foundation for a true democracy...
Busted deal with the devil by stooge Republicans puts Senate in play
What was an improbable prospect only weeks ago — Democrats retaking the Senate — increases in direct proportion to the severity and duration of the Trump train wreck.
Under Trump air pollution has increased for the first time in nearly a decade
“We had expected that things would be getting worse—and that they would perhaps be getting worse in lots of places.”
The liberal contempt for Martin Luther King’s final year
“It challenges the imagination to contemplate what lives we could transform if we were to cease killing.”
‘Corrupt as hell’: Demands for Clarence Thomas to resign follow new details of wife’s...
"Reminder that Clarence Thomas heard election cases while his wife conspired to overthrow democracy."