Sunday, June 28, 2026

The GOP tax plan is a declaration of war on learning

The transformation the Republicans want would make the nation collectively dumber and much more dependent on profit-making businesses.

Regrouping against the MAGA ambush – since cash, ground game, candidate- and campaign-quality got...

What ambushed Harris were targeted billionaire payola, years of leverage from phony, online propaganda, bought rightwing influencers, and decades of dishonest FOX noise.

North Korea: The costs of war, calculated

Even a limited war with North Korea would kill millions, devastate the environment, and bankrupt the U.S. Preventing it should be the peace movement's highest priority.

The Pain of Modern Life

Suicide is the third highest cause of death in the world. The pressure of life, causing extreme emotional distress, is the common denominator. Has suicide become a worldwide epidemic?

Kitchen logic: Don’t let Trump’s GOP privatize America

Why privatize our national patrimony when we have the money to repair it ourselves?

Is the GOP becoming the American fascist party?

What occurred in Nashville last week is a frightening reminder of the fragility of American democracy when Republicans obtain supermajorities and no longer need to work with Democratic lawmakers.

Ventilation shutdown is one of the cruelest ways to kill animals

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

Biden, Buttigieg and corporate media are eager for Sanders and Warren to clash

Keeping eyes on the prize this year will require a united front that can strengthen progressive forces, prevent any corporate Democrat from winning the party’s presidential nomination, and then go on to defeat Donald Trump.

Obama, deporter in chief, should pardon the undocumented

Noam Chomsky says Obama “should proceed to what is in fact an urgent necessity: to grant a general pardon to 11 million people who are living and working here, productive citizens in all but name.”

Our post-carbon future depends on electric vehicles – our Congress controls their economic lifeline

The fossil fuel industry is working hard to eliminate a tax credit that reduces emissions and creates jobs.