Sunday, October 11, 2026

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.

A Deere in the spotlight

Deere's licensing scheme is an artificial, corporate-imposed, private "law" that will squeeze independent shops out of business.

What road should progressives take?

Let’s all band together and throw out Trump, the neoliberals, and those who want ever more wealth for the already wealthy.

Workers matter and government works: Eight lessons from the pandemic

Here are some lessons we’ve learned from it.

The US killer drone program stays afloat on the back of lies and Pentagon...

A wrongly targeted Afghan aid worker and his family are among the latest casualties.

Putin puppet urges Russia to ‘take’ back Alaska—fine, trade for DC statehood

Isn't it reassuring that Russia has its own unhinged, Trumpian-Marjorie Taylor Green-types?

Clinton’s Crumbling, Bernie’s Surging and a ‘Political Revolution’ Could Be in the Offing

There is something big happening in the American body politic and in this presidential campaign. Bernie Sanders has touched a nerve and his campaign has gone from a quixotic experiment to a contest to a movement, and there may be no stopping it at this point, though Clinton may try.

Seriously auditing the rich makes sense. Seriously taxing the rich can save us.

The affluent gang at Patriotic Millionaires is making the case for an entirely new tax system.

Trump’s victory and elite power over the Democratic Party

The same basic approach of Democratic Party elites that first opened the door to the White House for Donald Trump has done it again.

Five Prerequisites for War Against ISIS

As we move toward war against ISIS, we must be vigilant – to fairly allocate the burdens of who’s called on to fight the war, to protect civil liberties, to protect innocent civilians abroad, to avoid hate and bigotry, and to fairly distribute the cost of paying for war.