The battle over what it means to be female
“How do we explore these rights for transgender folks in a way that does not undermine the rights of women or people of color?”
7 not-so-subtle messages Congress is sending with its tax plans
The two tax bills define what’s important to a society. Or more to the point, who’s not important.
An infected president, a disease of the heart, an imperiled republic
It’s a supreme irony that President Trump has chosen to call Covid-19 “the China virus”.
The American Empire: Murder Inc.
Investigative journalist Allan Nairn knows firsthand how the U.S. uses mass killing as a routine tool of foreign policy. The horrifying tactics of Islamic State, he says, are an imitation of what we have been doing and what we have been teaching our international proxies for generations.
How Republicans could steal the next presidential election
Your vote is important, and not just in federal elections. The future of our democracy is not guaranteed.
Is Trump so desperate he’d risk getting shot to regain the White House? Without...
How can Trump end up looking like the dumbest, lyingest punk operative who ever escaped from the sneaky Naked City?
Artificial intelligence: profit versus freedom
As with previous technological breakthroughs, AI places on society’s agenda both new issues and old contentious ones.
Hold the panic—Two positive Dem scenarios emerge from the Biden debate debacle
Either Biden reassures voters that exposed defects won’t impair four more years in power – or approval numbers plunge and he withdraws, thus opening the field.
Sisyphus Trump maniacally replays 2015, with repeated, inflammatory media blitzes. But that gambit...
How many unforced errors—the Arlington cemetery mess, JD Vance, fake Ohio pet-napping and Loomer—confirm Trump as monumental scatterbrain?
[Un]Happy new year
Trump two is a formula for… Yes!… Hell on Earth