Chris Hedges and Wallace Shawn on politics, playwriting and power
The two discuss experiences working in other countries and how those experiences led them, as Hedges puts it, to “grapple with the reality of empire.”
A tax on Wall Street trading is the best solution to income inequality
This is a great example of a clearly defined policy that will directly reverse some of the upward redistribution of income over the last four decades.
EPA reportedly helped Paris agreement opponents place op-eds in newspapers
Conservative op-eds argued wrongly that China and India are not taking action.
Hillary Clinton: ‘I take responsibility for every decision I made, but that’s not why...
“I had no control over the Russians...”
Be warned, Donald Trump: Ghosts are everywhere
Harry Truman understood the importance of allies in Europe. President Trump does not.
Kabul bomb blast kills at least 90 people. We need to know their names
We may never know who is to blame, nor, sadly, are we likely to learn the names and the life stories of the victims.
Trump holds a trump card: The power to pardon
U.S. Constitution, Article II, Section 2 on pardon power of the president: ‘The President shall...have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.’
Making NAFTA worse
Trump promised to negotiate the widely loathed trade deal, which would be great – except he's giving corporations even more power to offshore jobs.
BREAKING: Wisconsin may bring the Koch brothers one state closer to rewriting the constitution
Legislators are debating whether to call for a constitutional convention, a prize of corporate interest groups.
The Republican Party’s sickness of the soul
There is, indeed, a “poverty of spirit” at work here.