Report card: Six months into Biden’s presidency
It’s not clear—will Biden get America back to where it was before Trump?
Old McPontiff Had a Farm
Who knew—Pope Francis has a farm. And on his farm he is providing a living model of a sustainable food system to the public. Just one more reason he is living up to his reputation as the “People’s Pope.”
When Barbara Lee doesn’t speak for me
Lee now seems to have cast aside her beliefs expressed in her historic 2001 speech.
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.
Make America ungovernable
Now is the time to shut down the systems of power. Now is the time to resist.
Governors are stiffing workers – and democracy
In Ohio and beyond, governors are signing corporate-backed laws to stop local communities from raising their minimum wages.
In Nevada County, a harbinger of the chaos that election deniers will wreak
A hand count has been halted. Most voters won’t use computers to vote.
Afghanistan and the Purdue Pharma case are reminders that the US is a failed...
The Sacklers said they wanted “global peace” from future lawsuits, and they got what they wanted. Meanwhile, in the failed narco-state they helped create, the war goes on.
How the President Can Curb Big Pharma Greed
Rep. Pocan’s letter urges President Obama to “use executive action and take concrete steps” to address the drug cost crisis, and lists three tools that the president can use.
A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all.
Donald Trump’s proto-fascism poses the largest internal threat to American democracy since the Civil War.