Sunday, November 15, 2026

Who for Veep?

The big question for Bernie-ites is who they want for vice-president.

Out of Bounds, Off-Limits, or Just Plain Ignored

Six National Security questions Hillary, Donald, Ted, Marco, et al., don’t want to answer and won’t even be asked.

Promise and peril in Africa’s newest democracy

While the victory for democracy in the Gambia is important and should be celebrated, the way it came about should give us some pause.

Democracy dies in the light

The problem is that the media continue to operate as if a normal democratic election is being held in this country, when it clearly is not.

When You’ve Lost Bernie Sanders: How Netanyahu Destroyed the Israel Lobby

Sen. Bernie Sanders will not attend the March 3 speech from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to Congress. Is his announcement a turning point in the domestic politics of Mideast policy?

Former congressman indicted on 24 criminal counts

If convicted, the former congressman could face decades in prison.

The Ultimate Zinger: Just Call Something ‘Evil’

Big words, like good and evil, come with lots of emotional baggage, little of which stands up to logical scrutiny. The rhetoric of evil drags terms from old-time religion and serves the political class by oversimplifying moral and political complexity, a kind of instant moral sound bite. Is money really evil? Or all of capitalism? Or the western world as if personifies only the worst of humanity? What applies to individual morality works much less well with abstract institutions.

Tell Congress to pass the Stop Wall Street Looting Act

Sign the petition and help us tell Congress to consider the Stop Wall Street Looting Act as the first step towards halting these abusive practices.

Trump’s new war

Trump is specifically mounting a war on our country's poor people, though he euphemistically calls it a war of liberation.
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Boycotting Trump

You need to be both a political activist and a consumer activist.