Politics

Forget their policies for a moment, and consider how two politicians’ lives foreshadow our ecological future.

“The time is now for the United States to join every other major country on Earth and guarantee health care to every American as a right not a privilege, and Donald Trump, the insurance companies and the drug companies will not stop us.”

With these words, Mulvaney has brought that class war out into the open.

It looks like Perry has the votes necessary to become the next Secretary of Energy.

“You know, we treat marijuana in the same way that we treat heroin now, and that clearly is not appropriate.”

Michael T. Klare is a Five Colleges professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts; defense correspondent of The Nation magazine; and author.

"If the Buzzfeed story is true, President Trump must resign or be impeached," declared Texas Rep. Joaquin Castro.

Authoritarian governments have tried to rig elections for ages. More dangerous are the far-right leaders concentrating their power by relatively fair elections.

What’s truly amazing – until one habituates to the mammoth corruption of current U.S. politics – is how utterly unwilling today’s Democratic Party is to discuss issues that would paint Republicans in not merely in an unflattering, but in a criminally insane light.

Did Hillary's campaign and cooperative Democratic officials and Arizona voter officials help her steal a primary win in Arizona on Tuesday? Certainly there were lots of apparent voter suppression efforts afoot.