U.S. democracy: The four-year rule?
American democracy is in rough shape. It’s going to take more than this election to set it right.
The dangerous myth of deregulation
Don’t fall for it. Trump’s binge of deregulation is just another form of trickle-down economics.
The collapse of Michèle Flournoy’s hopes for the top Pentagon job shows what can...
War preparations that increase the likelihood of war may excite laptop warriors. But the militarism they promote is madness nonetheless.
Progressive Briefing for Tuesday, September 18
Who is Christine Blasey Ford, catastrophic and historic flooding, Trumps sets up tariffs, and more.
In the heart of a dying empire
Welcome to that most unpredictable and dangerous of entities, a dying empire.
The American Empire: Murder Inc.
Investigative journalist Allan Nairn knows firsthand how the U.S. uses mass killing as a routine tool of foreign policy. The horrifying tactics of Islamic State, he says, are an imitation of what we have been doing and what we have been teaching our international proxies for generations.
Post-inauguration, restoring the soul of Biden’s America must be truly inclusive
If we are to include the substantive contributions of African Americans in our discussion of an American soul, we cannot presume that this is limited to the mere inclusion of African Americans in a Biden cabinet that “looks like America.”
Guns, memes and dreams of civil war: The background of the Boogaloo
“Go to the riots and support our own cause. Show them the real targets. Use their anger to fuel our fire. Think outside the box. We have mobs of angry people to use to our advantage.”
How Bashar al-Assad’s Regime Came Back in the Syrian Civil War in 2014
There is a maintained fiction that the U.S.' 2014 bombing raids against Daesh and al-Qaeda do not help the regime, but rather the moderate rebels. In actuality, they help the regime.
GOP Candidates Freaking Out About Grand Jury That Indicted Anti-Abortion Activists
All of them believe the jury made the wrong decision.









