Saturday, July 4, 2026

COVID-19 killed more Americans in 2021 than 2020, and the Republican Party death cult...

Many Republican governors have forbidden mask mandates and have fought vaccination mandates (routine for other deadly diseases such as polio) in the courts.

Life IS cheap these days, but GOP thuggery is getting damned expensive

For the dim and benighted (including the Donald), politics has become anything but a profitable grift road to riches.

Trump administration releases new rules on school nutrition standards, rolls back Obama administrations efforts

Last week marked the first of many rollbacks the Trump administration and the USDA are planning on the way the USDA administers school lunch programs.

U.S. progressives and a Biden foreign policy

With more progressives than ever in the country’s federal government, there may be an opportunity for the United States to really re-evaluate its foreign policy and place in the world.

Joe Manchin’s America

The resurgence of the culture-of-poverty debate.

Once again, the right hijacks that old-time religion

A new museum in Washington reminds us that the Good Book is subject to interpretation – and abuse.

President Obama Can Help Save Saudi Youth Facing Beheading

If the Saudi government beheads these young men, it will further ignite sectarian hatred.

Does America have the balls – or means – to buy out malignant swamp...

On John Oliver’s satiric bribe* to the Supreme Court’s king of corruption.

Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, July 3, 2018

New study shows a correlation between air pollution and diabetes, despite the fact that EPA deems the levels 'safe,' News outlets indirectly paid Melania Trump up to $1 million for images under contract that demanded 'positive' coverage and more.

Trump (and Putin) still pushing fascist ‘nationalism’

Nobody should maintain any illusions about who Trump and his cronies are, what interests they serve, and what kind of threat they pose to the future of the democratic world.