Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Trump’s worst braggadocio: Rote, conniving predictions doomed not to warp the future! 

Is blatant trash talk not desperate swill/ From Convict-in-chief and right-wing shill?

A climatic presidency

Donald Trump gets hot, hot, hot.

What planet are we on?

How did I end up living in Donald Trump's suicidal America?

How many of Trump’s nine cat lives remain? Could fear of losing explain his...

The problem is that the unfeeling Trumpian brew of chaos, cynicism, and suspicion sabotage what open, healthy democratic systems depend on.

When progress misleads: The hidden baseline problem in public-interest advocacy

Claims of success in animal welfare, climate policy, and corporate sustainability often rely on narrow metrics that obscure whether real-world harms are actually declining.

Whitmer’s data center push isn’t just bad for Michigan—it’s bad for the world

Michiganders are "fighting like hell" because they understand exactly what is at stake.

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

Maybe if we stopped claiming that we were the greatest, most exceptional, most indispensable nation ever and that the U.S. military was the finest fighting force in the history of the world, both we and the world might be better off and modestly more peaceful.

War with Iran to test China’s energy security

U.S. military action is disrupting key energy suppliers, putting China’s reliance on foreign sources to the test. Even as Beijing strengthens domestic capacity and diversifies imports, the crisis exposes the limits of its energy strategy.

How Mesopotamia’s urban and industrial revolution started politics as we know it today

Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.