Wednesday, April 8, 2026

The decline of the U.S. empire: Where is it taking as all?

Will China become the next global hegemon against heightened resistance from the United States, bringing the risk of nuclear war closer?

Syria’s new fundamentalist government: Women ‘biologically’ unsuited to politics, universities to be segregated

The comments provoked a firestorm of protest among Syrian women and, well, non-fundamentalists.

Poachers Killed More Than 1,000 Rhinos for the Third Year in a Row

South African officials report that fewer of the animals were poached in 2015, but deaths rose in neighboring Namibia and Zimbabwe.

New evidence that poor Americans pay the highest taxes and get little of the...

Today the taking of our national wealth can be tax-deferred indefinitely.

Trump’s double standard on freedom of speech

The president wants liberties for himself that he doesn’t grant to others.

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)