What The Media Should Know About Gun Background Checks
Although the details of the plan have not yet been released, several outlets are reporting that the Obama administration will address what is known as the “gun show loophole” or “private sales loophole.”
Sedition
Eleven Republican senators and senators-elect said today they will vote to reject President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory next Wednesday when Congress meets to formally certify it.
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?”
Save the election, resist the hate
The only thing that can work against a hijacked election is mass citizen action. A General Strike.
Getting Beyond the ‘Buffett Rule’
In 1944, the year billionaire investor Warren Buffett first paid income tax, Americans ‘soaked the rich’ — and benefited mightily from the soaking.
Trump’s Fourth of July
We must share these ideals if we are to have a functioning society. Without them, there is no America.
Seeking more power, Thailand’s new king is moving the country away from being a...
As Vajiralongkorn transforms the nominal powers granted by the constitution into real powers to be exercised at his own discretion a restoration of a hybrid form of monarchical rule is now underway in the Land of Smiles.
Rethinking Medicare for All – slightly
In running a social system, we really need to decide when and how wealth can be used to “buy your way” into a better level of treatment.
The Most Bizarre, Yet Intriguing, Presidential Campaign in Modern History
If Donald Trump represents the bizarre side of this developing presidential race, then Senator Bernie Sanders represents the serious, rational side. But no matter what the turnout, Americans yearn for fresh blood, new thinking and new ideas.
Noam Chomsky on Trump’s troop surge to democratic cities & whether he’ll leave office...
“His entire attention is this one issue on his mind: that’s the election.”