Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Is Trump’s axis of the plutocrats marginalizing Israel?

President Trump managed to realign U.S. Middle Eastern policy to center on—and yes, it should be capitalized!—an Axis of the Plutocrats, Gulf sheikhs who are using their galactic fortunes to reshape the region.

Trump poised to violate Constitution his first day in office, George W. Bush’s ethics...

The Constitution doesn’t allow presidents to seek gifts from foreign agents.

New York lawmakers ban evictions until May

“This bill is only a temporary solution to the urgent housing crisis we find ourselves in.”

Would a “cold” war be the best news around?

Ukraine, Taiwan, and other flashpoints in a new age of geopolitics

The CFPB protects us from bad banks; Republicans want to kill it

The CFPB isn’t being targeted because it has failed. It has been targeted because it is succeeding. It must be defended at all costs.

Prediction: Biden is going to win the Nov. 3 election

A trip through northeast Pennsylvania’s played-out coal country to NY’s rural Catskills tells the story.

U.S. is a classic empire and is becoming a repressive police state at home

As I set out to fly home from the UK on Monday following a short film project in Cambridge, I found my...

Why ‘centrists’ will sink the Democrats, if they haven’t already

The bipartisan, centrist political consensus is breaking down.

Pope Francis Plea for Climate Action Revives Concept of 'The Commons' to Rethink Economy...

Pope Francis has recently visited the Philippines, a country that has been dramatically influenced by climate change, in order to give Vatican talks and teachings about the warming of our Earth.