A Citizen’s Guide to the Upcoming Conventions
Our two major political parties no longer nominate people to be president. Candidates choose themselves, they run in primaries, and the winners of the primaries become the parties’ nominees.
Supreme Court preserves college preferences for wealthy whites
In its recent ruling on affirmative action in college admissions, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices squarely came down on the side of race and class-based preferences—for wealthy whites.
Wells Fargo Had a Bad Day. That’s a Start.
John Stumpf is undoubtedly decompressing somewhere right now, waiting in comfort for the heat to die down.
Truce in Lebanon: Can diplomacy rise from the ruins?
The truce in Lebanon and the evolving diplomacy that is reshaping the Middle East in response to the genocide in Gaza as the threat of a major regional war is ever growing.
Newsom’s radioactive hypocrisy on green energy
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been touting himself as the Great Green Environmental Anti-Trump.
But it’s an infuriating radioactive...
Priceless teaching moments from the last five presidencies, especially today’s craziest, most corrosive
Character matters because that’s the best future predictor; career success matters because past is prologue; competence matters because gross negligence is catastrophic.
Ethiopian General Election
Was the recent election in Ethiopia an insult to the people and democracy? The citizens are abused and suppressed by a brutal, arrogant regime that acts in violation of all democratic ideals.
5 reasons why Trump’s corporate tax cut is appallingly dumb
Don’t fall for Trump’s corporate tax giveaway.
The GOP tax plan is a declaration of war on learning
The transformation the Republicans want would make the nation collectively dumber and much more dependent on profit-making businesses.
Trump’s shareholder bonanza
Make no mistake: Trump and the Republicans are working on behalf of America’s biggest and richest investors, not American workers.