The same old monster, with an orange face
If there is one small silver lining to this, it’s that it could create an opening for a more radical alternative to grow in opposition to the Republican sweep.
#ProtectTheTruth
Donald Trump despises journalists because the duty of a good journalist is to tell the truth and inform the public.
Mass shootings and domestic violence
“There’s absolutely no doubt that the practice of violence within a home . . . opens the floodgates to public violence.”
America’s farmworkers face poverty, neglect, and now deportation
Up to 70 percent of the people who put food on America's tables may be undocumented.
From trans rights to treaty rights, the U.S. Supreme Court breaks progressive?
While American progressives will need a laser focus on the courts in the years ahead, these four decisions will likely reverberate around the world and create new possibilities for justice in many places beyond the country’s borders.
‘Treasonous’ Patriots? Defunct exceptionalism? Inverse MAGA? The right smash-mouths its own perfidy
A cult of empty-headed, arm-waving stunts, as with the "rigged" election, is in the end no more than absurdist tomfoolery.
America, a nation teetering on the edge
The kind of question we the people of America should be asking ourselves, “Can we get along? Why is it that we can’t get along?”
Been There, Done That
In movie terms, you could think of Washington’s war policies in the post-9/11 era as pure “play it again, Sam.”
Guinea Pig Nation: How the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is reducing government regulations for ‘advanced’...
“Under the direction of Congress, the NRC is developing new regulations to facilitate licensing of experimental reactors."
Trump dead-ends the perfect rightwing storm: his nomination augurs party, cult and personal train...
Trump’s most notable, if disruptive, historic feat: single-handedly demolishing one of two national parties running U.S. politics for 175 years.