Saturday, May 16, 2026

If you’re innocent, not guilty, why would you need to obstruct, cover-up, and lie?

We’ll see just what kind of America that they want to live in, one in which the rule of law and the Constitution will still prevail, or one in which they both will become meaningless, irrelevant.

In Trump’s America, your privacy is for sale

In Donald Trump's America, the information isn't stolen by hackers in the dark of night. It is taken with the government's blessing.

3 dark and disturbing reasons why Trump could win again

We can't underestimate the ability of the self-serving super-rich to convince millions of Americans that a surging stock market and a powerful military are essential to their livelihoods. All at the expense of jobs and health care and education.

If politics presumes to entertainment, why isn’t it more entertaining?

In any case, after the unruly 2016 campaign, the over-riding question for 2020 and beyond looms: will voters embrace the most qualified presidential candidate – or fall for a predictably hyped replay of bad theatrics?

Suffocating an island: What the US blockade is doing to Cuba

The American people need to know what the U.S. is doing to Cuba.

The verdict on Republicans? Guilty as charged, on all counts

It has sold its heart and soul to gain power and control.

Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump: The three great threats to world peace and stability; all...

With the election on the horizon, America stands at a crossroads that will determine its fate going into the future.

How does Santos the phony phony differ from Trump the genuine phony?

Imitating Trump’s illusion of invulnerability does not protect one against self-destruction.

How a bird flu outbreak wiped out a generation of seals in Patagonia—and what...

An unprecedented avian flu outbreak in Argentine Patagonia devastated a stable elephant seal colony, highlighting the rising threat of infectious disease to wildlife in a warming world.

Eulogy for a Friend

Chris Hedges recently delivered this eulogy for his friend and former divinity school classmate, the Rev. Terry Burke, who spent 31 years as the pastor of the First Church Jamaica Plain in Boston.