Gov. Northam: Don’t resign until Trump does
If Gov. Northam’s exit becomes one more potent lever against continued Trumpery, he achieves both partial atonement and participation in removing a national disgrace.
Forum perversion: Why progressive media should BAN climate-troll comments
Extensive reflection has produced a rather compelling case why the trolls’ climate pseudoscience comments – if not the trolls themselves – should be banned from progressive media.
Complacency and the environmental catastrophe
Complacency, apathy and hypocrisy coalesce to form the most noxious causes of climate change and environmental vandalism.
The wall: Barrier or symbol?
Let’s be crystal clear: A wall has little or no advantage for law enforcement or border security.
Trump’s perverse exceptionalism: Hail to the chief of misrule
In the face of craziness beyond satire, here’s today's default, depicting nothing less than Exceptionalism Against the American Grain – as we reluctantly, summarily Hail to the Chief.
A Global Battle of Values and Ideals
Unity, cooperation and tolerance; such qualities necessitate and encourage a shift away from a narrow ‘me first’ approach to living to an awareness and responsibility for society more broadly and the natural world.
President Chicken Little goes medieval, channels dead presidents
Like Chicken Little, the dishonored Trump name looks to go down as the icon of self-destructive over-reach, puffed up, then deflated by its own arrogance. Are we not learning “nothing to lose” could be the worst Trump delusion?
Referendum 2020: A Green New Deal vs. racist, classist climate genocide
This piece will offer why this stunning referendum would be so politically powerful and – despite that – so difficult to persuade Democrats to adopt.
Spreading wealth to maintain consumption
What will happen if robots, AI, and automation displace a huge percentage of workers. How will there be enough consumers to buy all the goods and services produced if there is a big drop in earnings?
By the best definition, the poverty rate should be tripled
But poverty deniers won't look deeper, because they don't want to admit that anyone willing to work could be suffering in the richest country in the world.