Want to understand Manchin and Sinema?
If you want the whole answer, you need to look at the single biggest factor affecting almost all national politicians I’ve dealt with: Big egos.
What’s the point of subsidizing fossil fuels?
The industry fights to keep going and not to have to bear the cost itself of the environmental harm which it causes.
When the Left is Right…Far Right
How is it possible that so many left voters in France are willing to choose a far-right candidate in the second round of the presidential elections?
10 good things about 2019
Remembering some of the gains in the difficult year of 2019 can help inspire us for the critical struggles ahead.
Corporate seditionists are no better than the seditionists who attacked the Capitol
The tsunami of money now flowing from corporations into the swamp of American politics is larger than ever.
The high stakes of the US-Russia confrontation over Ukraine
The U.S. must step back from the brink of a U.S.-Russia war, and then from the larger Cold War with China and Russia that they have so blindly and foolishly stumbled into.
Poverty division democratic destruction: The Johnson legacy
In many ways Johnson and the toxic brand of Conservatism he represents is a product of the age, The Age of Populism, which has infected many democracies.
Dystopian Donald
The future according to Trump.
How to respond to EPA chief Scott Pruitt’s lie about carbon dioxide and climate
Don’t argue with Pruitt or his Koch Brother-funded cousins. Close down the coal plants. End coal.
America is ‘exceptional’ now as barbaric pariah, starring MAGA wrecking balls that batter collective...
Just as the world obeys unchangeable physical laws, so there are fixed thresholds in the economic and political world.