Monday, November 9, 2026

Souring Chicago’s Sweet Treat

If its executives are so inept that they can't find an honest way to fill a $46-million hole, they should dock the pay of their top three executives by that amount.

MSNBC’s anti-Sanders bias makes it forget how to do math

Citizens, including the ones MSNBC claims to speak for, deserve better.

Debating Democrats, please, no fighting in the war room

Direct your artillery at the real enemy, not each other.

Biden says climate crisis is an emergency, but doesn’t declare one

“Climate change is literally an existential threat to our nation and to the world.”

Education Secretary says expect student loan announcement ‘within the next week or so’

"It's time to fix our broken student loan system and #CancelStudentDebt," said Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Democrats make a huge mistake if they just focus impeachment on the Ukraine scandal

As with Nixon, impeaching Trump requires a slow boil, not a stir-fry.

Climate migrants might reach one billion by 2050

“Unless we change the way we manage our land, in the next 30 years we may leave a billion or more vulnerable poor people with little choice but to fight or flee.”

The biggest house race of 2016: Teachout vs. Faso

Teachout could be a case study of how progressive populists can use a combination of policy detail and political jiu-jitsu to beat back right-wing attacks.

Is today’s NRA the “price of freedom”?

Someday, people will read about this moment in history books and wonder how we got to this level of insanity.