Saturday, June 20, 2026

Why College Isn’t (and Shouldn’t Have to be) for Everyone

Why do we encourage our young people through a single funnel called a four-year college education? It’s time we stop pressuring every young person to go to college and, instead, offer an alternative route into the middle class.

Inauguration day: Letter to a Trump voter

Here’s one thing we can already agree on: With this inauguration, our nation and our world are about to change forever.

What the tawdry stunt to rename the Gulf of Mexico exposes about appalling, arrogant...

Behold imperial bellowing, another classic MAGA “bargain” that costs millions and lowers our prestige.

From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol, killing civilians is a crime

Exposed lies and double standards that corrupt the Pentagon's latest effort to whitewash its criminal non-compliance with the Geneva Conventions.

Greasing the Outstretched Palms of the Candidates

Two reports underline the suffocating influence of corporate America on politics and the tricks banks play on taxpayers.

Building the institutions for revolt

No movement will survive unless it is built on the foundation of deep community relationships. Organizers must learn to listen, even to those who do not agree with them.

‘Fake news’ in America: Homegrown, and far from new

The corporate state created this monstrous propaganda machine and bequeathed it to Trump.

The choice is now Trump vs. Jesus as a profane president rejects Christianity’s highest...

Trump the unlettered con man wouldn’t learn right from wrong if Jesus taught the class.

Relatable, reality president mortifies creepy, anti-reality pretend president

A genuine Biden more greatly contrasts the fake Trump than the slicker, more charming Obama or dull Dubya, the phony cowboy.

What American media won’t tell us about the Putin and Xi meeting, part I

China’s moves in the Middle East and apparent endorsement of Putin’s imperialist goals in Ukraine necessitate a response from the West.