Once again, the right hijacks that old-time religion
A new museum in Washington reminds us that the Good Book is subject to interpretation – and abuse.
Sanders vs Warren and other media manipulations
Last week, during which the current U.S. president almost bombed Iran and the presumed front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Joe...
Memo to Congress: Diplomacy for Ukraine is spelled M-I-N-S-K
If the U.S. government wants to play a constructive role in Ukraine, it should genuinely support this already existing framework for a solution to the crisis, and end the heavy-handed U.S. intervention that has only undermined and delayed its implementation.
“We are unstoppable!” Some of the lessons from Occupy Wallstreet, 10 years later
“One of the main contributions of Occupy was ‘the 99 percent.’”
Economic growth in G7 versus BRICS: a reality check
Like rose-colored glasses, anti-systemic glasses make economic problems appear less dangerous, narrower, and more limited in effects than they actually are.
When public officials get rented out by corporate power, the people lose
Such deep betrayals of public trust should not be rewarded with plum executive branch jobs.
How to defeat the Trump Administration’s racist, Republican-rescuing Census corruption
So be prepared. The Trump administration may get its way and put a citizenship question on the 2020 US Census.
Panama Papers Reveal Scandalous Hypocrisy
Mossack Fonseca is being branded as a criminal enterprise for the rich. OK, but it shares that shameful brand with our own state governments.
Three Surprising Reasons Saudi Arabia May Be Getting Out of the Oil Business (Video)
In as little as fifteen to twenty years, petroleum may be illegal in some places; and will be in retreat everywhere.
Life IS cheap these days, but GOP thuggery is getting damned expensive
For the dim and benighted (including the Donald), politics has become anything but a profitable grift road to riches.