At Stake in 2016: Ending the Vicious Cycle of Wealth and Power
Regardless of who wins the presidency in November and which party dominates the next Congress, it is up to the rest of us to continue to organize and mobilize. Real reform will require many years of hard work from millions of us.
Why Isn’t the Media Feeling the Bern?
Polls show that Bernie Sanders would trounce Donald Trump, but you’d never know that from watching TV news.
The Most Important Neglected Middle East Stories of 2015
The past 12 months saw enormous political, economic and military shifts in the Middle East, changing its geopolitics for the foreseeable future.
The Illusion of Freedom
This deception will exist as long as we “stay in our place.” Once we call out power for what it is, once we resist, the chimera will vanish. The iron fist of history’s most sophisticated security and surveillance apparatus will assert itself with a terrifying fury.
No Denying It, Climate Change Is Happening Now
The level of denial is simply appalling. It appears increasingly unlikely that humanity will prove capable of confronting and addressing the self-destructive climate-change catastrophe that it has created.
Five New Year’s Resolutions for Cognitively-Deprived Conservatives
Many conservatives shy away from the facts, but a willingness to consider them would be a good way to start 2016.
2016: The Year of the Know-Nothings?
There's always a deep pool of intolerance and bigotry below the surface of a society. The societies that incubate the terrorists we fear most are no exception.
Rackets Science: The Influence Peddlers Protection Act of 2015 (H.R. 2029)
Voters should ask, is the United States more corrupt now than it was eight years ago? Than 16 years ago? 24 years ago?
Of Rotten Apples and Rotten Systems
Shkreli may be a rotten apple, but hedge funds and the pharmaceutical industry are two rotten systems that are costing Americans a bundle.
Trump: The Party Divider, Unifying Everyone Else
Trump like none before unites by being ferociously, obnoxiously divisive. Intended or not, this narcissistic bully is doing his damnedest to overcome entrenched, party divisions we thought fixed in stone.