Friday, December 19, 2025

Creating a mixed race legal system

We should swear an oath that our children will never need to experience a George Floyd death, and the unfairness and inequality that we have today shall be no more.

Clarence Thomas’ 38 vacations: The other billionaires who have treated the Supreme Court Justice...

Thomas has secretly reaped the benefits from a network of wealthy and well-connected patrons that is far more extensive than previously understood.

Should rich people get a free pass at tax time?

We’re finally debating that question.

A double-transplant cancer survivor takes on Trump over Obamacare

“My message to young activists is: Continue to advocate. Draw inspiration from what you see. Don't change the channel.”

Trump dead-ends the perfect rightwing storm: his nomination augurs party, cult and personal train...

Trump’s most notable, if disruptive, historic feat: single-handedly demolishing one of two national parties running U.S. politics for 175 years.

In Trump We Trust: A Satire

Reworking great poetry in the service of satire, here with all the formality of a Shakespeare-style sonnet. Only satire captures the full absurdity of the bizarre election cycle, starring a fraudulent, unqualified TV celebrity in full disruption of a national party that started with Lincoln. Humor trumps befuddlement, as it were, at least this week.

Getting China wrong, yet again

A new Council on Foreign Relations report presents China in a distorted light.

The hazards of military worship

Everyone loves the troops and their generals, but history indicates that military advice Isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

The 1967 mobilization against the war in Vietnam: Confrontation at the Pentagon

Hopefully we can all learn something useful for today by looking back at this crucial event through the eyes of someone whose worldview was shaped by his participation in it.

Tax cuts for the rich help the rich, not you

Big money will pull out all the stops to sell you a tax plan that exclusively benefits the wealthy. Don’t buy it.