How Scalia’s Death Affects That Important Public-Employee Union Case
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death affects the Friedrichs v. California Teachers case, which the conservative majority on the court was prepared to use to bankrupt public-employee unions.
Call it treason
Failing to challenge Trump's Pentagon “shake-up” in the strongest way possible is equivalent to encouraging Trump and his allies to destroy our Constitutional form of government.
Bernie Sanders: If you throw 32 million people off of health insurance, tens of...
"Short term, I hope that we can work with the Republicans to end the absurdity of us paying the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. Longer term we need a Medicare for all, and I will introduce that once this debate is over."
New bill to prevent Wall Street from continuing to finance fossil fuel industry
“For too long, our federal government has looked the other way while our nation’s largest banks bankroll the dirtiest fossil fuel projects.”
How privatization cuts us in two, while public institutions make us a better people
More profits for the privatizers, more health concerns and expense and disdain for the public.
Remembering my date with Hillary
“I do believe we are in a struggle for the future of our country.”
No sympathy for the devils
The old adage (I’m lying. I just made it up) of “If you believe there is a devil, then you must believe there is a God too.”
Veterans’ health act signed into law; a victory for military veterans and families
"For many veterans, the path towards healing from service-related trauma goes through public lands. Today, that path got a little easier."
Why billionaires don’t really like capitalism
Capitalism doesn’t work well with monopolies, insider-trading, political payoffs, fraud, and large amounts of inherited wealth.
Massive, relentless attacks on the U.S. media; a precursor to a totalitarian state?
The big question then is; what kind of a president with what kind of characteristics would be needed to take this country in that dangerous direction?