Why the election represented an unprecedented exercise in democracy
Besides trusted leaders, what Americans need is greater solidarity...
Can the U.S. establish a ‘deconfliction’ with Russia in Syria?
The U.S. said late Monday that it would try to reestablish “deconfliction” with the Russians. A lot is riding on whether they do.
Rampaging Debt Collectors are Committing Highway Robbery
Every year, the debt collection firms routinely abuse the law and overload our courts by rotely filing hundreds of thousands of lawsuits against debtors.
The new trade agenda: Deals that promote equality rather than inequality
These are the sort of rules that we should be looking to include in future trade agreements.
China and Governor Cuomo: Models for the world in managing, controlling the coronavirus crisis
I believe that the level of fear, panic, and feelings of hopelessness would be far less if Cuomo were the president.
Sedition caucus mimics Trump’s worst sin: Demolition of content—legal, moral, democratic or electoral
The party of primitive deplorables, thinking it too could play with fire, is facing an outraged majority. Too bad it took so long.
The unbearable heaviness of fealty to the Trump horror show
Collective downsides will persist until the Grievance Gang accepts that god-given white privilege, let alone its preposterous messiah, won’t dominate governance.
2021 update: Half of America in or near poverty
The facts and numbers from numerous sources reflect the reality of deprivation in America, and help to confirm what has been called the "sharpest rise in the U.S. poverty rate since the 1960s."
Add November 9th to the mornings I’d rather forget
In the hours after Trump declared victory, some signs of hope and resistance.
It Takes a Movement
In short, “the real world we’re living in” right now won’t allow fundamental change of the sort we need. It takes a movement.