Making madness normal in wartime
All the talk about “heroism” and “duty” greased the wheels for slaughter.
Atomic Bill and the Payment Due
The play is “a true story about media manipulation at the dawn of the Atomic Age and the New York Times reporter who sold his soul to get the story.”
Prosperity sharing: Not just for the 10%
A Republican-led idea in Alaska helped citizens share in oil profits. Can Democrats scale the model to include Wall Street’s wealth and restore faith in collective prosperity?
Best nations really are the brightest. Solution: Close the reason gap
America's pushing dumb and dumber, while dumbing down the next generation.
More than ever, Trump’s most effective campaign ally is Joe Biden
For progressives, the task should be clear: Join with other political forces to insist that Biden voluntarily become a one-term president.
From trans rights to treaty rights, the U.S. Supreme Court breaks progressive?
While American progressives will need a laser focus on the courts in the years ahead, these four decisions will likely reverberate around the world and create new possibilities for justice in many places beyond the country’s borders.
From pseudo-democracy to real participation
True democracy is an expression of the brotherhood of man.
Suicidal Rethugs gift Dems by reducing elections to absurdly simple choices: Want truth or...
Dems should simply repeat, “Do you want Trump in charge when the next global disease event strikes”?
A good year’s pay for a good day’s work?
Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality.
Through the GOP, the wealthy are waging war on the old
Dignity, health, and security are endangered by this war on the elderly — a war that must be resisted.