The 5th coronavirus relief package we need
Most of the elements of the 5th Relief Package we need have been introduced by various members of Congress, but they won’t be included if we don’t speak up and demand real emergency relief.
The existential threat from the non-stop barrage of right-wing sedition
Long term democratic states are, by any known measure, the great exceptions, not the historic rule.
How Amazon, Starbucks, and other companies fight unions
Big corporations are fighting dirty to keep their workers from organizing – and they’re still losing. Imagine what could happen if they had to fight fair.
North Carolina Flush Your Bathroom Bill Down The Toilet
Let's celebrate love, acceptance and equality. Take American politics out of the toilet.
Poetry: 4 12-liners for political times
It never occurs to us that we've come to appear much like the devils that we ourselves fear.
Two European elections show that rightwing populism is still a force
Le Pen’s first round win, her second in two elections, and Orban’s 4th in Hungary show that rightwing populism remains a potent force in European politics.
Artificial intelligence: profit versus freedom
As with previous technological breakthroughs, AI places on society’s agenda both new issues and old contentious ones.
Our #1 objective must be: Drastically reduce the fear and panic among Americans
Fear begets fear, panic begets panic, but only if we allow it to continue to happen.
Looks like another ‘bad blue’ just bit the dust
Jamie McLeod-Skinner, as the replacement for Bad Blue Kurt Schrader, would not be beholden to any of the many corporate PACs that supported him.
2084
The world as it might be (or do I mean might have been?)