Thursday, March 28, 2024

Obama Should Heed Hiroshima’s Survivors

Obama will be the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima, Japan.

Bernie Sanders Wins West Virginia Primary

Bernie Sanders just won the West Virginia primary!

The Costs of Violence: Masters of Mankind (Part 2)

“Who rules the world?” we might also want to pose another question: “What principles and values rule the world?”

Bernie Sanders on Colbert Explains Why He Still Has a Chance

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders performs a sketch alongside Colbert and talks delegate math.

How Trump Would Weaken America

Weakening America’s alliances, the likely result of Trump’s policies, is hardly the way to “make America great again.”

The Collapse of the Middle-Class Job

How to pay for a solution? A financial speculation tax on the rich and, for the poor, a tradeoff of safety net benefits for the security of a guaranteed income.

Trump Confronted With Reality That His New Economic Idea Would Destroy The Global Economy

Trump's wild-eyed ideas about the national debt seem to be based on a gut feeling rather than reality.

American Power Under Challenge

Yet another triumph of “humanitarian intervention,” and, as the long and often ghastly record reveals, not an unusual one, going back to its modern origins four centuries ago.

First Democratic Convention Abolishes Superdelegates

The Maine Democratic Party just eliminated the superdelegate.

Only Sanders Defeats Trump the Old Fashioned Way: With Truth-telling, Character & Competence

The best retort to an unqualified, unstable narcissist is dramatic contrast with a principled, grounded, selfless career professional like Sanders. Broadcast Trump's vanity worldview, glorifying his almighty cash nexus, against Sanders' steadfast life of public service -- in which honor and persistence reinforce moral intentions, fleshing in Bernie's idealistic pledges. The effective way to trump Trump is present a stable, moral choice opposite in every way to his surfeit of moneyed self-indulgence, life-long manias for fame, and incendiary fabrications.