Why Raphael Warnock’s reelection could tip the balance for America’s economic future
“He’s there to work. He’s not there to make the backdoor deals. I wish we could have more senators like that.”
The theocratic scourge when a fundamentalist minority wars against diverse, majority rule politics
What the savvy Founders elevated was an enlightened chain of being that linked freedom, secular democracy and the exclusion of a state religion.
P. G. T. Beauregard
A white Confederate general can learn from experience that it does society better to recognize the equality of minority races.
Eisenhower’s ghost haunts Biden’s foreign policy team
The most serious challenge facing President-elect Biden's foreign policy team, which is not a threat from a hostile country, but the corruption of U.S. policy by powerful corporate interests, is the "unwarranted influence" of the Military-Industrial Complex.
Forget the gaudy Biden vs. Trump soap opera. What counts nationally: The DC party...
Not voting or voting third party in a razor-close purple state (as in 2016) empowers a dictatorial narcissist.
Cosmic irony, cosmic con job: MAGA Trump, hatched in savage distrust of government, now...
The biggest, worst Trump Lie: that good governance that serves the majority is impossible and that burning all down is superior to reforming structures.
Newsom’s radioactive hypocrisy on green energy
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been touting himself as the Great Green Environmental Anti-Trump.
But it’s an infuriating radioactive...
It was the rage of the age
Was Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a private research facility in Suffolk County, pivotal to the spread of eugenics through the United States and world?
When will MAGA Trump’s reckless war against America cause an equal, GOP-demolishing backlash?
Trumpism has always been a bad faith magic trick but day by day becomes America’s indefensible bad joke.
US and China why not a deal?
The very real dangers—ecological as well as geopolitical—that the world now faces encourage finding some kind of negotiated agreement on a multi-polar world.