Monday, July 14, 2025

Disaster Payoffs: Best Lessons From the Worst Campaign

Look at all the marvels we learned this past year. Our revered democracy, battered by money and bludgeoned by bad faith, can still distinguish an utter phony, skilled mainly as con artist, from adult candidates capable of governance. All but Trump offer the minimum for any viable president: deflecting monumental disruption and chaos.

How Power Works

When the state decides to isolate, discredit and crush you it has innumerable ways to do so.

Oregon Locals Take On Corporate Power With ‘Tax Corporations’ Measure 97

Learn from Oregon’s amazing activists and organizers and organizations like the coalition behind Measure 97.
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VIDEO: TAKE BACK THE SENATE!

Remember what’s at stake. And Vote on November 8th!

Screwing With and Screwing the Elderly and Disabled

The American people should be demanding annual benefit adjustments that reflect the real world confronted by the elderly and disabled and not simply the fantasies of political hacks in Congress.

Our Long National Debate Nightmare is Over

Until the public demands better, the puppet show will go on.

The Mosul Campaign and the Third Presidential Debate

Clinton was secretary of state, so why is she so flat-footed on these foreign policy issues?

The Ethical Rot of Wells Fargo, From the Top Down

What's at work here is the ethical rot that now consumes America's entire corporate system.

The Last Debate: How Low Will It Go?

The night’s biggest question won’t be asked by the moderator. The question is: How low can this race go before it’s over?

On Strip Searches And Press Freedom In North Dakota

The free press should now focus a fierce spotlight on the standoff at Standing Rock - a critical front in the global struggle to combat global warming and fight for climate justice.