23 Governors join together with California to oppose Trump’s fuel efficiency freeze
Governors from 24 U.S. states are standing together and backing California officials who are asking the Trump administration to put the brakes...
Labor Day 2028
By 2028 will technology replace all work, leaving no one worried about making money? If John Maynard Keynes' prediction is right, we must learn how to redistribute the profits from these labor-saving inventions—and fast.
The next crash
Trump and his Republican enablers are now reversing regulations put in place to stop Wall Street’s excessively risky lending. That imbalance is back.
The Costly Truth of Emergency Spending in Iraq and Afghanistan
Despite troop reductions, the Pentagon's war budget is increasing.
A twenty-first-century incredibility chasm
Life in the United States of Trump.
Watch dying activist Andy Barkan’s “heartfelt” and “moving” conversation with Bernie Sanders on the...
Progressive activist Ady Barkan didn't let losing his voice to ALS stop him from launching a new series of interviews with presidential...
Syria’s Aleppo falling: Moscow is a player in the region again
Russia’s success in shaping the outcome of the Syrian struggle has made Moscow a player in the region again for the first time since the fall of the old Soviet Union.
How GOP Candidates Would Deal with Syria (the Short Version) (Video)
During the second GOP debate at CNN, anchor Jake Tapper asked the question: "What would you do right now if you were president, to get the Russians out of Syria?" Watch as each candidate dodges the question.
Why the American majority despises Trump’s Washington
Why do these doofuses keep trying to shove such wildly unpopular measures down people's throats?
Rahm Emanuel is in the running for a top ambassador post. The prospect is...
Days after Biden’s election, AOC told the New York Times that Emanuel’s inclusion in the Biden administration “would signal, I think, a hostile approach to the grassroots and the progressive wing of the party.”