Biden’s appeasement of hawks and neocons is crippling his diplomacy
We hope he and his advisers are not too blinded by anachronistic imperial thinking or too intimidated by the neocons to make a fresh start and engage with the world as it actually exists in 2021.
Hugo Chávez predicted this
This war on Venezuela has been two decades in the making.
DACA sophistry: Trumpery at its worst
Another round of punitive disruption-for-disruption-sake Trumpism – except for the innocence of the targets. DACA children, brought into the only country they know, are now reduced to ideological bargaining chips to distract from endless failures. Trump populism? Little more than an unfeeling tyranny of the shrinking minority.
World’s democracies threatened by disinformation generated by artificial intelligence
AI is a critical arena in which democracy is being challenged.
Returning to Reno
In the shadow of Roe's undoing.
Angst in the church of America the redeemer
David Brooks on making America great again.
You Owe Us, Corporations: Four Reasons Why, and One Way to Pay
Because corporations have used our resources to develop technologies that are gradually reducing the need for human involvement, and because all of us have contributed to our national productivity, either directly or through our parents and grandparents, we all deserve to benefit.
Trump budget for renewables slashed 70% under former Koch insider’s leadership
As for his old employers, the American Energy Alliance gave a full-throated endorsement of the Trump budget.
The American Rescue Plan is for real
“People are hurting enough already. They don’t need more worries about the future.”
California Democrats just stunned Dianne Feinstein by endorsing her left challenger
On Saturday, the California Democratic Party overwhelmingly backed progressive Senate candidate Kevin de Leon over incumbent Dianne Feinstein, the latest sign yet of a tectonic shift toward the party’s left flank.








