Saturday, July 12, 2025

The legacy of America’s first Wrestlemania president

Professional sports and professional wrestling tap into a primal level of tribalism that Trump has funneled into a form of nationalism.

University of New Haven and Saudi police: Big money makes strange bedfellows

How can an American university aid in shaping the instruction of security officers within the oppressive Saudi regime?

Engaging North Korea successfully on human rights

Despite a generally abysmal human rights record, North Korea has shown improvement in one specific area: disability rights.

Do better than a rip-off health care system

Universal care would unite our society under the essential democratic principle that we Americans really are "all in this together."

Taking a knee, standing for justice

Principled stands taken at great risk are often how movements are born.

Can centrism be a movement? The answer may surprise you

Real centrism, based on the needs and ideals of most voters, could very well become a movement.
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How to make the Electoral College irrelevant

The effort is known as the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

How privatization cuts us in two, while public institutions make us a better people

More profits for the privatizers, more health concerns and expense and disdain for the public. 

Why we must raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy, not lower them

That’s what rational politicians would do if they weren’t in the pockets of big corporations and the wealthy. 

If you don’t have good health care, neither should your rep

Until they deliver for the whole public, the public owes them nothing.