America’s real red scare
The slow-motion collapse of the American Empire.
10 years ago, Connecticut got big money out of its elections. Now Democrats are...
The landmark public financing system is under threat.
Top-secret NSA report details Russian hacking effort days before 2016 election
“It’s not just that [an election] has to be fair, it has to be demonstrably fair, so that the loser says, ‘Yep, I lost fair and square.’ If you can’t do that, you’re screwed.”
Trump trifecta abuses science, world diplomacy and Mother Nature
Rejecting the Paris accord is the culmination of Trump’s (literally) scorched earth presidency: destroy willy nilly on the irrational assumption what comes next must be better.
EPA head continues to defend Trump’s historic mistake
By withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, Scott Pruitt and Donald Trump are turning their backs on American families, eating away at America's global leadership and standing alone on the wrong side of history.
Avoiding apocalypse on the Korean peninsula
Why diplomacy is not naïve appeasement in the Korean crisis.
You get what you pay for: If money is speech, can democracy work?
This is not the sort of democracy the Framers had in mind, but if there is no distinction between private wealth and political influence, it’s the sort we’d better get used to.
Antonio Gramsci and the battle against fascism
History is made, Gramsci said, by human will. It is not predetermined.
The world according to Trump
Is this the personality of a sociopath?
U.S. congressman calls for holy war against “Islamic horror,” says “kill all” suspects
“On Election Day, I’m asking you to rise up and send a strong message to the socialists.”