Advice for Divided Democrats
Many Hillary supporters don’t want Bernie to keep campaigning, and many Bernie supporters don’t want to root for Hillary if she gets the nomination.
The problem with ‘humanely raised’ poultry and eggs
Chicken producers are misleading consumers with misinformation.
More and War
So many tax dollars have been spent on the further militarization of the country. We no longer have the slightest idea what life might be like if, instead of 17 significant intelligence outfits, we had just two of them, or even one.
The federal government shouldn’t be trying to salvage our broken food system—we need a...
Congress is considering an allocation for the mass killing of farmed animals.
The roots of the Capitol insurrection
Allowing them and their followers to distance themselves from what happened would be the kind of strategic blunder we too often see from the centrist wing of the Democratic Party.
Military spending’s out of control while slashing it could easily fund Medicare for All
Moment of truth on military spending in the NY Times.
Dead on arrival
Israel’s blowback genocide.
The Democrats in DC promised consequential racial justice reform—where is it?
The message to Black Americans expecting more progress has largely been to wait—for a better political opportunity, for the racial wealth gap to widen, for another Black American to die at the hands of the police.
If politics presumes to entertainment, why isn’t it more entertaining?
In any case, after the unruly 2016 campaign, the over-riding question for 2020 and beyond looms: will voters embrace the most qualified presidential candidate – or fall for a predictably hyped replay of bad theatrics?
Foiled Trump goes full Confederate, names Mar-a-Lago the MAGA Whiter than White House
'No cause is truly lost when the Confederate flag still waves, when statues of freedom-fighters stand on every village green, and good white Christian nationalists reign supreme.'