Monday, April 27, 2026

Trump’s lament: ‘And now, the end is near, and so I face the final...

It’s even more evidence that America badly needs a president who can keep his head on straight.

The Real Scandal of Trump Paying No Taxes

Trump isn’t and was never a smart businessman. He was and is smart at gaming the system. There’s a difference.

At a Time When America Desperately Needs the Best and the Brightest, We Get...

It appears that, once again, the Establishment is the clear winner.
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Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky: How the US became an oligarchy that makes war...

Chris Hedges talks with Noam Chomsky on the state of affairs in America and hope for the future.

The Great Potential of Poor Americans. And How Plutocrats Just Want Them to Go...

The homeless are feared by the upper classes, and they're often arrested for nonexistent or non-violent infractions, in good part because they are simply considered "offensive" to people of means.

A Holiday Note to Congress: Half of Your Country is In or Near Poverty

Members of Congress, comfortably nestled in bed with millionaire friends and corporate lobbyists, are in denial about the true state of the American middle class.

The New York Times’ False Foreign Policy Narratives

Fortunately, there are those -- who receive very little high-profile media ink -- that challenge the purpose and priorities of our twinned economic and physical wars. But they deserve allies in media – who don’t just seek to promote the lesser evil – but a world worthy of our humanity and of our potential.

Trump: The Dress Rehearsal for Fascism

Our system of inverted totalitarianism has within it the seeds of an overt or classical fascism.

Clinton’s Transition Team: A Corporate Presidency Foretold

Clinton’s smooth rhetoric should not change the fact that -- on a vast array of issues -- basic principles will require progressives to fight against her actual policy goals, every step of the way.

Growing Evidence that Charter Schools Are Failing

Education reformers, who have a lot of money but little knowledge of the real world of education frighten America about public schools. Do they want our children to be their human capital?