No U.S. war on North Korea
An optimistic perspective on a scary crisis.
The grifters do ‘tax reform’
If you're a working-class or middle-class taxpayer, this "reform" offers nothing except uncertainty.
Yes, Obama’s $400,000 speech is a problem
What’s to be done? Run candidates who have no interest in flattering the ultra-wealthy or becoming wealthy themselves.
The drastic effects of Donald Trump’s reversal of Obama-era climate regulations
Under Trump the emissions will rise, and so will the damage to future generations.
Forget Andrew Jackson. The Right thinks Trump is Calvin Coolidge!
Comparisons are odious, and contrary to conservative opinion, Noisy Donald Trump is no Silent Cal.
Trump’s unconstitutional assault on the judiciary
This assault on the federal judiciary is an abuse of Trump’s constitutional authority – yet another ground for impeachment.
Terrorizing the vulnerable
“We only want to live in peace, work, have a home, be a family.”
Women beware: Saudi Arabia charged with shaping global standards for women’s equality
Who let the Saudi fox in the hen house?
The last time there was this much carbon dioxide in the air, giant armadillos...
New scientific estimates show that the last time there was this much carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere may have been during the Pliocene era, some 4.5 million years ago.
How to keep ‘public’ and ‘service’ in our public postal service
These profiteers and plutocratic ideologues constantly put out propaganda, castigating the Postal Service as a massive, money-sucking, deteriorating, bureaucratic behemoth.