Tuesday, April 16, 2024

House Democrats hold first climate change hearings in more than 5 years

"Today, we turn the page on this committee from climate change denial to climate action."

Biden reviews Guantanamo prison; aims to close it before end of presidency

A revival of an Obama-era goal, President Joe Biden announced the launch of a formal review of the U.S. military prison at...

The escalating class war against Bernie Sanders

“If there is going to be class warfare in this country. It’s time that the working class of this country won that war and not just the corporate elite.”

Donnie is a Trumpist, not a Populist

Don't fool yourselves into thinking Trump's a populist who'll be on our side.
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Meet the socialist marine and anti-police brutality protester who won Democratic seats in November

Can the emergence of non-traditional candidates help revive a faltering Democratic Party that is facing its lowest approval rating in nearly a quarter century?

Top 4 Republican Plagiarisms of the Democrats

Here are some instances of sticky fingers or the even more insidious ‘sticky reverse fingers.’

Should we entrust our schoolchildren to corporate profiteers?

The DeVos couple are pushing plutocratic policies that reject our country's one-for-all, all-for-one egalitarianism.
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Terror and geopolitics: Manchester in 2017 and in 1996

Both Manchester bombings were reactions against a history of colonial shaping of the lives of local people.

Two colonies doomed to 2nd-class status and remote central government control

Two photos speak volumes about the striking similarity between Hong Kong and Puerto Rico, one an island and peninsular former colony of...

GOP “health” bill: Death, disaster and Gilded Age greed

The Republicans want to give us less and make us think it’s more. It’s time to tell them we’ve had enough.