First step down a dangerous path
Have Republicans – or hawkish Democrats – learned anything from the military and diplomatic history of the past two decades?
Why the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is a Pending Disaster
The TPP is a Trojan horse in a global race to the bottom, giving big corporations and Wall Street banks a way to eliminate laws that get in the way of their profits. The TPP is the wrong remedy to the wrong problem.
For captured regulators, repealing the Volcker Rule is child’s play
One thing’s for certain: if there’s another financial crisis, it could make the last one look like child’s play.
Mayor resigns and pleads guilty to corruption charges
As the target of a multi-year undercover investigation headed by the FBI, Scranton Mayor William Courtright resigned from office on Monday and...
Why food prices are rising even more
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuvKoe9Ilvo
Monopolies are slowly killing rural America — and driving up the price you pay for food.
The Wages of Sin
Huge segments of working-class whites—victims paying for the sins of American empire—are desperately seeking to halt change and re-create a mythical past. This is always the last, desperate gasp of a dying culture.
What’s with the Biden age mania? Life counts. Do youth fetishes guarantee better presidents?
America early on was where nutcase Spanish explorers first sought the Fountain of Youth. Instead, what counts is the Fountain of Age as both attainable and infinitely more valuable.
What’s Trump’s escape valve when (or if) he realizes he’s losing? Bluster ...
There could be greater disruption than Jan. 6, but the enormous, co-ordinated might of law and order won’t get ambushed again.
In defense of 20th C+ liberalism, historic domestic advances, truth, justice and the American way
The big picture contrasts America of 1895 with how far we’ve come: despite setbacks and injustices, a century plus of domestic advances in freedom and justice match other enlightened nations.
The authoritarian president
The U.S. Constitution was created to stop authoritarians like Donald Trump.