The secret saga of Trump’s tax cuts
Flip-flops, falsehoods, fantasies – and a 10-minute meeting that locked in trillions of debt.
Why we need sanctuary states
California’s law limits the authority of state and local law enforcers to communicate with federal immigration authorities, and prevents officers from questioning or holding people depending on their immigration status or immigration violations.
Stuck in a rut of their own making, progressive democrats need to be honest
Until progressive Democratic candidates like Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren forthrightly declare that Yes! socializing health care by making the government the...
Nicaragua to sign Paris agreement, leaving Trump alone with Syria
Ortega's move leaves Trump in a two-member club with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, one of the world's most brutal dictators.
The Senate finally approves aid for Flint, but at an expense
“Federal funding to help begin fixing the pipes at the heart of the Flint water crisis is shamefully overdue.”
Steven Bannon’s real vision isn’t America first. It’s America alone.
What does it mean for international relations when the most powerful country in the world becomes a pariah state?
Will Biden be a rerun of 2016 tragedy?
As a throwback to the Clintonite 1990s, Biden says he feels the pain of victims but won’t name many villains.
Tlaib and Sanders push bill to tax excessive CEO pay
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Rashida Tlaib unveiled legislation that would impose higher taxes on corporations paying executives more than 50 times their workers, citing billion-dollar gaps at firms like Walmart, Starbucks, and Tesla.
America the unfree
Detention practices in a Trumpy post-9/11 age.
Erasing History in Mesopotamia
Since the Islamic State rose out of the ashes of al Qaeda in Iraq, oil and other resource smuggling are just a few things funding this endeavor. Is this how the criminal gang now controls major cities throughout the Middle East?