Friday, October 16, 2026

Trump’s Election-Fraud Big Lie assaults everyone’s voting rights, mandating punitive laws against sedition

If a “loser” can offset his loss with lying bluster, then elections are mere puppet shows – and democracy withers.

Protests at the pump

The first major protest of the post-Communist era in Eastern Europe was not about corruption. It wasn’t about disappointments with democracy.

Is Joe Biden right that the Russians are committing genocide in Ukraine?

President Biden admitted that he is making an argument from the gut when he says this, and that jurists of international law will make the final determination.

Exploring the mindsets of typical, fanatical Trump supporters: Part 3

This kind of subservient attitude and blind loyalty is unbelievable, beyond comprehension, it’s as if these Trumpsters may have been mind-conditioned.

As neo-nazis hail him, Trump shrugs

The longer Trump allows white nationalists to decorate their propaganda with his name the more suspicion he provokes about his own ideology and intentions.

No more holiday gifts for repressive regimes

The U.S. is selling weapons to a country that's killing a child every 10 minutes. That has to stop.

Chicago’s Taxpayer-Funded Ode to Robber Barons

Even though George Pullman was a feudalistic 19th-century profiteer, he considered himself a beneficent employer as he suppressed the wages of his factory workers. In current times, is our tax money going to finance a monument for his greed?

Unheralded national popular vote push to remedy ‘elitist’ Electoral College

You’d think today’s majority, rebuffed twice in 16 years with two wingnut, minority presidents, would rage against the non-democratic, distortion-laden Electoral College. You’d think that hapless, vision-less Democrats would crusade against what put dim Dubya, then crazed, scatter-gun Trump in power.

How the food and drug companies ensure that we get sick and they make...

We wallow in ignorance, as corporations thrive on the tobacco industry's old slogan, "Doubt Is Our Product."

Buying homeland insecurity

America’s $50-plus billion annual boondoggle.