Friday, November 13, 2026

Trump: The anti-Gorbachev

Like Mikhail Gorbachev, Trump helms a fading empire. But while the former Soviet leader supported democratization in his wake, Trump's sowing the seeds of autocracy all over the globe.

Do-it-yourselfers unite!

People have been fixing stuff ever since stuff was invented. Now big corporations want to change that.

8 lessons US progressives can learn from the UK Labour Party

As of mid-July, Labour is 8 percentage points ahead of the Conservatives. Here’s how they did it.

This left challenger is showing how to use progressive economics to flip Trump country

Congressional hopeful Jess King is bringing an anti-poverty agenda to the working-class community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Clearing the Trump Trainwreck!

When reality goes from bad to worse/ What’s sane for me is satiric verse.

The hidden costs of “national security”

Ten ways your tax dollars pay for war – past, present, and future.

Why Bob Mueller is no Ken Starr

The legacy of the Starr investigation could still provide guidance to both the special counsel and the White House.

If hell had a budget: The GOP breaks the ten commandments

This budget seemed strikingly in sync with the hellish weather gripping Washington.

New map reveals where the world’s most toxic countries are

Believe it or not, the five least-toxic countries are found in Africa. And the most toxic? The Middle East.

Trump’s power to pardon

“The issue of whether a president can pardon himself is one of the unanswered questions of the Constitution; it has never happened in the history of our republic.”