How America can better care for its veterans
Veterans deserve a system of care that serves them as reliably as they did the nation.
Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies
Ambush at Kamikaze Pass.
Creating a national security state “democracy”
Or how the American political system changed and no one noticed.
Voter backlash defies MAGA’s anti-reality hokum, entrapped by its own BS, rip-offs, venom &...
Trump promised unremitting revenge but that is a sharp, merciless two-edged sword about to redound on him and MAGA.
Additional questions for James Comey
The FBI has a long history of secrecy and oppression, which those fighting for justice and democracy should never forget.
Ten points for Democracy activists
Take the viewpoint of the public good, not corporate profiteering.
Worshiping markets, genuflecting to grand fortune
Our conventional political wisdom, here in the United States, tends to see utopians as lefty egalitarians of one sort or another, clueless...
Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism
“Economics dominates politics—and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.” Sheldon Wolin discusses the terrifying configuration of corporate power he calls “inverted totalitarianism” with Chris Hedges.
Keeping workers poor is bad for business
At America's biggest low-wage employers, chief executives now pocket 670 times more than their workers.
This is what austerity looks like
It is growing insecurity that drives fear, and the elites’ use that fear to divide us against each other.