Thursday, July 2, 2026

The Mueller indictments aren’t stopping the GOP from pursuing its craven agenda

Trump is in hot water, but Republicans are still pushing forward his plans to cut taxes on the rich and defang the EPA.

We don’t have to choose between nuclear madmen

We can make a difference -- maybe even the difference -- to avert global nuclear annihilation.

Kyrsten Sinema flips Senate seat in Arizona in historic win

"As long as I've served Arizona, I've worked to help others see our common humanity and find common ground. That's the same approach I'll take to representing our great state in the Senate, where I'll be an independent voice for all Arizonans."

The code behind the far right’s success

Forget the deplorables and focus instead on the persuadables.

Amped-up Age of Anxiety weaponized into Age of Nostalgia

Today, alas, confirms the truth of Pete Hamill’s quip, “The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.”

Small Business Owners Take to the Letters Page to Take On Trump

Small business owners are speaking out against Donald Trump.

The Wages of Sin

Huge segments of working-class whites—victims paying for the sins of American empire—are desperately seeking to halt change and re-create a mythical past. This is always the last, desperate gasp of a dying culture.

Could voters abroad tip the democratic primaries?

I’ve been researching to try to find out exactly how many Democrats vote from abroad.  In 2018, the Federal Voting Assistance Program...

Insurgent extremists bet the farm, touting street terrorism, medical malpractice & law-breaking

Street violence offends the vast majority, and extremism doubles down the downside.

Delinquent Don exploits — and thus exposes — huge, systemic presidential flaws

What reforms immunize us from another chaos chain reaction? We’re closer to the end than the beginning of...