Politics

COVID-19 exacerbated the shortages of poll workers that states and counties already face in every election.

Amidst soaring defense spending, a new GAO report uncovers the Pentagon's chronic evasion of basic fraud prevention measures, with Senator Bernie Sanders leading the charge for accountability.

for the moment, it seems, humanity still has the chance to write its own history in a fashion that would allow for a perhaps less welcoming but still reasonably palatable world for our children and grandchildren to live in. And be glad of that.

As the special election approaches, Republicans abandon morality for power.

In short, “the real world we’re living in” right now won’t allow fundamental change of the sort we need. It takes a movement.

Fatal inequality will continue to terrorize this nation until we genuinely commit to confronting racism and gun violence.

“The U.S. government misread Cuba when it decided to invest so heavily in trying to instigate insurrection. We Cubans want to improve our country & move forward, not back to the times when we were the friendly playground of U.S. capital, corruption & ambition.”

Each of these stunning disclosures gives Wikileaks and Julian Assange sufficient concern to consider himself a marked man.

“Trump’s EPA is choosing NOT to regulate #perchlorate, a dangerous chemical linked to fetal & infant brain damage and found in the tap water of millions of Americans. This decision ignores science and the law.”

A historic showdown is again looming in Chicago.