The secret GOP plan to keep power
In 2020, we need to pay attention to state elections as well as elections for president and Congress. State elections could decide...
Reasons for optimism
Whenever privilege and power conspire to pull us backward, we eventually rally and move forward.
What George Carlin taught us about media propaganda by omission
George Carlin’s quip reminds us to demand the other score: the horrific cost of our unequal and unsustainable status quo.
Trump debased his own primary, slurred party foes & stole the election. What! No...
That my thought experiment won’t happen, indeed fail badly, reinforces a party going full speed towards a cliff without looking up from its insular "party favors."
Empires are a secret until they start falling
As the US loses its position of global supremacy, we have an opportunity to fundamentally reshape what we as a nation represent.
Recalling the hundreds of thousands of civilian victims of America’s endless ‘war on terror’
It’s time we as a nation gave some thought to and did some penance for all those civilian deaths and combatant deaths as we remember 9-11.
The American people will impeach the Republican Party and its members
Based on their record, what they say and what most of them refuse to do, the vow they made has become meaningless.
Here’s several reasons why Trump cannot take away birthright citizenship
Should a candidate for President that meets the “natural born” standard be declared unqualified because his parents were illegal?
How do we get the media more focused on climate change?
"My hope is that if the candidates start getting inundated with emails, they may decide to join the Global Climate Strike crowd."
Why a DNC vice chair bawled me out – and why Joe Biden must...
Biden’s mediocre speech at the New Hampshire convention on September 7 is already a historic record of a dismal candidate for president whose nomination promises to be a disaster.