A different war: For my father on Father’s Day
The shabbier and more senseless the war...the more hollow its objectives and justifications...the more one-sided our advantage...the more distorted the news from the front...the more random the casualties on all sides.
How Bernie Sanders Can Squander — or Expand — His Victory
If the Democrats can mobilize enough voters for a big victory, their party may well regain control of the Senate.
An acid test for the self-righteous right
The fate of a suspected pedophile Senate nominee is now an acid test of Republican morality.
The only real “centrist” agenda
If Wall Street and big business used the 2016 election as a teachable moment, they would realize this.
How union workers safeguard American democracy
There’s no denying that this advocacy protects Americans’ freedoms.
Garland, Smith, Willis: Like watching grass trying to grow on the rock-solid ground in...
America’s full-of-holes System of Justice that Trump has beaten like a drum for quite some time now is like watching grass trying to grow on hard ground in the winter.
‘No Kings Day’ was historic. Now we need a powerful—and independent—movement against Trump
People can unite to lead so that leaders will follow, and justice can prevail.
From Tucker Carlson to Epik, mainstreaming hate and paranoia for profit
From the Great Replacement theory to anti-mask and anti-vaccination propaganda, the far right is finding niches that allow them to draw ever larger numbers of people to their reactionary, anti-science views.
In Trump’s world where money talks, Saudi Arabia gets a free pass
In Trump’s world where money talks, poor refugees are banned from entering the United States while Saudi princes who cling to power by torturing and beheading dissidents get safe passage to their luxury digs in Manhattan’s Trump Towers.
Compassion versus greed
Why do we permit investors to latch on to apartments and neither live in them nor put them up for rent?