Friday, April 26, 2024

The ‘Hidden Figures’ Jeff Sessions wants to keep in the shadows

A new movie reminds us of past racial injustice as a new administration tries to roll back the clock.

The art of the Trumpaclysm

How the U.S. invaded, occupied, and remade itself.

The Money Primary

Running for America's highest office in our democratic republic has been perverted into a gold rush. The donors and political sycophants involved in this obscene corruption of the system are playing with dynamite.

What Trump’s idea to break up big banks could mean for average Americans

While it is unclear whether Trump’s plans are serious, it’s worth considering what breaking up the banks could mean for typical bank customers.

Antonio Gramsci and the battle against fascism

History is made, Gramsci said, by human will. It is not predetermined.

The insult wars in Washington

How they blind us to our troubles.

Trump is signaling an unprecedented right turn on foreign policy

From his feud with Bob Corker to his plans to renege on the Iran deal, Trump's mood swings mean a dangerous new era of foreign policy.

Priciest US weapon, the F-35, just attacked one of world’s most primitive fighters, the...

Why did the US military have a vertical-take-off F-35B launched from an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean make an attack on a Taliban position in Afghanistan?

The real divide

Unless Democrats stand squarely on the side of democracy against oligarchy, the risk on election day is that too many Americans will either stand with Trump or stay home.