Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Kochs bankroll move to rewrite the constitution

If America faces the madness of a runaway convention, voters of both parties will know whom to blame.
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Venezuela accuses US of secretly shipping arms after weapons found on plane with possible...

Venezuela accused the U.S. government of sending the arms as part of its attempt to topple the Maduro government.

Bernie, The Donald, and the Sins of Liberalism

An American Version of Class Struggle

Pyongyang on the Potomac

When Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un shook hands on June 30 at the line dividing the two Koreas, the pictures that...

Sports teams: The everlasting tax shelter for billionaires

A perverse loophole allows owners of profitable teams — and their heirs — to lower their tax bills by claiming huge paper losses.

A depleted military? No, it’s truth that’s depleted…

The real problem we face has nothing to do with military weakness or depletion or under-spending on national security.

News from the far side of nowhere

In this century, Americans have been in something like a contest of avoidance when it came to what their country and the planet it garrisons were becoming. If anything, Donald J. Trump has only made that avoidance easier...

Open Veins, Healing Wounds in Latin America

As the U.S. and Cuba had their first formal meeting in more than half a century, Eduardo Galeano, the great Uruguayan writer who did so much to explain the deeply unequal relations, recently died. Will the open wounds be healed in Latin America?

Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief plan: $400 unemployment boost, $1,400 checks, and billions in additional...

“Congress should immediately move to pass President-elect Biden’s plan,” said Claire Guzdar of the Groundwork Collaborative. “And we can’t stop there.”

Former EPA Chief Scott Pruitt used private email for government work

“The fact that his personal emails weren’t provided to us until after he left could mean that he was actively trying to hide something or that he was just as cavalier about records policy as he was about all the other rules on government accountability and ethics. Both are bad.”