Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Ozymandias on the Potomac

When Donald Trump’s term in office is done, this country moves quickly to recover its capacity for economic rationality, it should be able to regain some version of its place in the world economy.

Killing the dream 50 years on

Perhaps conspiracy theories had been put on ice for awhile, but the nation only became more divided over Vietnam.

The brave new war machine

How a clique of unhinged techno-optimists is putting humanity at risk.

The Plundering of a Nation by a Beloved Company

Does the "tax-avoiding, research-appropriating, cost-escalating, wage-minimizing, self-enriching Apple Corporation" really have a very strong moral compass? It's time consumers know the truth about the company's theft from taxpayers and the exploitation of workers and customers.

Not your grandma’s civil rights strategy

Whose streets? (Then and now)

Cosmic irony, cosmic con job: MAGA Trump, hatched in savage distrust of government, now...

The biggest, worst Trump Lie: that good governance that serves the majority is impossible and that burning all down is superior to reforming structures.

Head of Chile Chapter of Transparency International Resigns After Named in Panama Papers

Delaveau resigned hours after Chile’s tax authority announced it would begin launching investigations into Chileans mentioned in the Panama Papers

California Assembly introduces law to advance safety of artificial intelligence and public computing power

Artificial intelligence (AI) presents "substantial risks" and experts said California is setting the path to manage those risks.

Warren and Jayapal introduce legislation to limit corporate influence over federal rulemaking

The EXPERTS Act and the Stop Corporate Capture Act aim to restore agency expertise, increase transparency in regulatory decisions, and reduce the influence of corporate funded studies and litigation in the rulemaking process.

The Trump-Mamdani show was amazing. But downsides for Progressives could turn out to be...

Trump and Mamdani found each other newly useful last Friday. Only later will we know who was more effectively using whom.