Standing on the brink—the President’s war on the press
The freedom we cherish in America owes a great deal to the symbiotic relationship between “the news”—free-wheeling journalism, warts and all—and an accountable government.
For the Wealthy, a Taxing New Worry
“The current tax code has become an echo chamber for the economic forces driving the increase in income and wealth inequality, the blurring of economic and political influence, and the degradation of paid work.”
The Claudius presidency
After four years of an American Caligula, will Joe Biden bring the United States back into the international community?
Biden’s legacy is written in blood
Behind all the devastation are all the people in power that make all of this tragedy and grief possible in the first place.
Another troop surge in America’s longest war
100,000 troops couldn't stabilize Afghanistan. What can an extra 5,000 win, besides more casualties?
As Ford polygraph made public, Senate Judiciary Democrats unified: Kavanaugh should ‘immediately withdraw’
"We are writing to request that you immediately withdraw the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court or direct the FBI to re-open its background investigation and thoroughly examine the multiple allegations of sexual assault."
Trump against the world – and the government?
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Six questions for a world that seems to be losing interest in democracy
How do we shape a democratic future living in a zeitgeist that is tightening its grip across the globe?
Comic relief from Mike Pence, as if delusion, deflection, and cowardice will redeem lost...
Pence looks more like the walking, even staggering dead, having now neutralized his one and only courageous Senate action.
The public banking revolution is upon us
A century after the very successful Bank of North Dakota proved the model, the time has finally come to apply it across the country.