Merry Christmas: Right-wingers, the Red Pope and Jesus
Rationality doesn't seem to be included in the liturgy of right-wingers' political church.
The biggest infrastructure project of all: Rebuilding a crumbling US government
The most important part of an infrastructure program would be to restore the principles of ethics and morality into the minds of our Congressional representatives.
Elon Musk: visionary or billionaire troll?
Elon Musk is exhibit A in building the case that billionaires should be abolished.
Hogwash! That the US goes full banana republic by prosecuting endless Trump crime sprees
Any failure to indict the spate of Trump criminality signals the beginning of the end of America.
Voting With Their Stone-Age Brains
Historian Rick Shenkman tells Bill Moyers that it's the voters and their emotions, not the candidates and their ideas, that will determine the outcome of the election in November.
How Congress loots the Treasury for the military-industrial-congressional complex
How the conjunction of dysfunctional military leadership, an ever-growing arms industry and a Congress that keeps handing them trillions of dollars, constitutes the full flowering of President Eisenhower's greatest fears for the future of the United States.
Trump’s Russian hand
The dark cloud of illegitimacy continues to grow darker.
SLAPP lawsuits: The biggest threat to the resistance you never heard of
Wealthy corporations must know they can’t SLAPP the public into silence.
Putting the nuclear genie back in the bottle
Can it be done? Can nuclear weapons be abolished?
Progressives can’t depend on the Congressional Progressive Caucus
We can’t depend on the Congressional Progressive Caucus to provide the kind of leadership we need. It must come from the grassroots.









