Monday, November 9, 2026

How to make sure Biden’s infrastructure plan can hold up to climate change –...

What if infrastructure were designed to meet shorter-term needs and also be easily adapted later for the future climate?

The Big Chill: How Big Money Is Buying Off Criticism of Big Money

In Washington's "think-tank" study on inequality, they fail to mention how big corporations and Wall Street have weakened the nation's labor and antitrust laws. So whose side is Washington really on?

The age of great expectations and the great void

History after “the end of history.”

Trump’s tariff move risks prolonged economic chaos

The United States remains an economy governed by decree and challenged by decree—a superpower struggling to define who is in charge of its checkbook.

MAGA married to the mob-ster: no divorce ever

In deadly lockstep is MAGA mated,/ To rise and fall as Trump is fated.

Syrian roulette

As Trump’s presidency unravels will he grow more desperate?

‘Hope is not a strategy,’ but neither is despairing doom and gloom – axing...

The future looms as long as we live, breathe and think. "History" is knowable only after the fact.

‘Most significant charges yet’: Trump indicted for trying to overturn 2020 election

Trump faces four charges: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights.

Can U.S. progressives stop a war with Iran?

Over the last few weeks there’s been yet another surge in tensions in the Middle East, with the Islamic Republic of Iran...

Despite twisted hype about “so much winning,” America staggers, the self-inflicted, breakthrough icon of...

The only yellow brick road towards more affluence for the under-trained or geographically-limited is to match skills with today’s employment demands or pull up stakes and move to less benighted areas.