Tuesday, September 15, 2026

The progressive speech

This will be perhaps the most important speech to be made during the 2020 campaign.

America at a crossroads. What if MAGA Trump bloodlust sets the stage for greater...

Losing the House (and Senate) will induce a 2020 replay but this time desperate Chicken Little will implode when repeating the same pathetic, “rigged” trickery again.

Ventilation shutdown is one of the cruelest ways to kill animals

The least humane way of culling poultry and pigs has become increasingly common.

The rise of private cops: How not to tackle homelessness

Like many cities with a serious housing problem, Portland is increasingly relying on private security to “clean up” the human debris of capitalism.
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Who’s to blame for out-of-control corporate power?

The public is waking up to the outsized power corporations wield over our economy and democracy. It’s about time.
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The 5 biggest corporate lies about unions

Don’t believe the corporate lies.

The attack on Western democracy

Are Western democracies under attack from Russia and the alt-right in America, in an effort to put racist nationalists in power?

Why Trump must think twice before he pardons Flynn

By now it must be obvious even to Trump that a pardon for Flynn – or any Mueller defendant or target – would put the final touch on an obstruction of justice brief against him.

How the Russia spin got so much torque

Tone deaf hardly describes the severe political impairment of those who insist that denouncing Russia will be key to the Democratic Party’s political fortunes.