Thursday, October 8, 2026

King Coal Is Headed to Prison

Don Blankenship is the first murderous coal executive to be put behind bars.

Mr. Trump: do you now understand the ramifications of your anti-mask policies?

Based on three reversals in a short span of time, I’d say that he should be readmitted to Walter Reed for more intensive treatment. And here’s a big plus. I believe they have a world-class psychiatric ward.

Syrian roulette

As Trump’s presidency unravels will he grow more desperate?

Trying to explain the disdain for poor Americans

The costly and dysfunctional state of health care in the U.S. shows the absurdity of entrusting basic human needs to the narcissistic tendencies of capitalism.

Think your job is safe from the robot invasion?

How soon before we have a bot-plot, with a cabal of rogue robots conspiring to overthrow an unsuspecting CEO and seize control of a corporation?

The progressive speech

This will be perhaps the most important speech to be made during the 2020 campaign.

Why We Need to Keep 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground

Life depends on it. Bill McKibben on the big changes we’ve already made in remarkably short order.

Don’t Republicans realize that they are committing political suicide?

The worst part of this entire bizarre situation is that these Republicans know this president is way out of line and starting to spin out of control and they are doing nothing about it.

Whatever happened to the Republican Party that stood for limited government?

Today’s Republican Party, while still claiming to stand for limited government, is practicing just the opposite: government intrusion everywhere.

Poll Shows Only 1 in 4 Americans Wants More US Involvement Abroad; Cuba and...

Americans no longer want any more involvement overseas. How out of touch can the presidential candidates be on foreign policy public opinion?