CIA-linked military contractor used Arizona ‘black site’ to secretly jail dozens of migrant children
A major U.S. military and CIA contractor has been detaining dozens of migrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with dark windows, no kitchen and only a few toilets.
How the Trump administration may be skirting its own ethics rules
The hiring of three former lobbyists to work in the White House raises questions about how the Trump administration is enforcing the president’s executive order on ethics.
Hegseth clamps down on Pentagon press access as military budget hits one trillion
As the Trump administration pushes for a $1 trillion military budget, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has imposed unprecedented restrictions on journalists at the Pentagon, raising alarm over transparency, accountability, and the future of press freedom.
Empire decline and costly delusions
Historically, declining empires often provoke denials and delusions that teach their people “hard lessons” and impose on them “hard choices.” That is where we are now.
BREAKING: Democrats Stage House Sit-In to Demand Action on Gun Control
Democrats are demanding a vote on new legislation that would close gun control loopholes.
Where the Federal government’s charter school program went wrong
The program gives millions to schools that disrupt rather than improve a system of public education that needs to serve all students.
John McCain: Republicans Will Block Anyone Clinton Names to the Supreme Court
The cat is out of the bag.
Sanders called JPMorgan’s CEO America’s ‘biggest corporate socialist’ – here’s why he has a...
Looking inside these companies suggests a better way forward – and hope for society’s ability to avert catastrophe.
5 Ways NOT To “Make America Great Again.” And One Way To Do It.
When minorities and displaced workers and low-income elderly are at last made aware of the purpose of a progressive revolution, the American people will begin to care about each other again.
Congressional amendment opens floodgates for war profiteers and a major ground war on Russia
After the catastrophic wars and ballooning U.S. military budgets of the past 25 years, we should be wise by now to the escalatory nature of the vicious spiral in which we are caught.