Buying homeland insecurity
America’s $50-plus billion annual boondoggle.
Harris can’t embrace billionaires if she wants to win
Billionaires are busy pressuring political candidates to keep their taxes unjustly low. Their opinions shouldn’t—and don’t—matter.
When public officials get rented out by corporate power, the people lose
Such deep betrayals of public trust should not be rewarded with plum executive branch jobs.
Donald Trump is attempting a coup – we must have a special prosecutor
The firing of FBI Director James Comey makes an independent investigation of Trump and Russia more important than ever.
States of Terror
We waded into conflicts in the Middle East we did not understand, propelled forward by fantasy. And our folly spawned a death spiral of political, social and economic collapse, widespread poverty, massive displacement, misery and radical jihadism.
Scare-mongering is the only thing Trump and Republicans have got
The solution to the refugee crisis is generous aid to struggling Central American countries, not a Pentagon mobilization.
Trump dead-ends the perfect rightwing storm: his nomination augurs party, cult and personal train...
Trump’s most notable, if disruptive, historic feat: single-handedly demolishing one of two national parties running U.S. politics for 175 years.
Attacking Wall Street and the Corrupt US Political System Makes Sanders a Genuine Revolutionary
A Marxist take on the Sanders candidacy argues that his support for US imperialist military actions won't matter much if he follows through as president on his calls to break up the banks and get corporate money out of the political system.
A progressive path forward on trade
How do we get other countries to stop, change their strategies and spend more like we do?
Bernie’s heart. And ours.
Bernie has a huge and eternally healthy heart, filled with the lifeblood of empathy and dedication. In essence, that’s what the Bernie 2020 campaign is all about.








