Cleaning Up After Pundits
While the incitement of anti-immigrant prejudice for political gain is shameful and socially explosive, it is certainly not new or uncommon in our country.
Souring Chicago’s Sweet Treat
If its executives are so inept that they can't find an honest way to fill a $46-million hole, they should dock the pay of their top three executives by that amount.
To end this madness: Vote, and vote as if your very survival depended on...
In the past when American faced monumental problems it had leaders and citizens who stood up and responded in various ways to help the country overcome them.
Trump’s RICO indictment proves the GOP is beyond saving
The depth of criminality within the Republican Party – both among its elected officials and its operatives – is truly unprecedented.
In defense of 20th C+ liberalism, historic domestic advances, truth, justice and the American way
The big picture contrasts America of 1895 with how far we’ve come: despite setbacks and injustices, a century plus of domestic advances in freedom and justice match other enlightened nations.
In a time of madness, Sally Yates is a profile in courage
The fired acting attorney general proved this week that there are still a few in Washington who believe in truth and the law.
Fixed in stone: Here’s the WallopaLoser for the ages
As low as Trump has driven the country, the Georgia senate triumphs represent a remarkable, improbable bounce off the bottom.
We are Luddites
"THE ROBOTS ARE COMING! THE ROBOTS ARE COMING! ... EEK! THEY'RE ALREADY HERE!"
Societies can prevent wars from starting—and the future of humanity requires peace
Experts in peace and conflict studies explain the scientific evidence that societies can choose peace, and that warfare is also a choice, not a necessity.
A Harris win cements 2016 as a bizarre, fascistic, anti-status quo outlier. A Trump...
When Harris wins, we remind the world, despite appearances, that uninformed clods who tolerate serial shootings, intolerant fundamentalists, white supremacists, and anti-immigrant pogroms are not in charge.