Thursday, April 23, 2026

Hillary Finally Spoke Up About Inequality—20 Years Ago

Hillary Clinton was prescient in addressing the harms of an increasingly unfair economy just as she was 20 years ago, when President Clinton was running for re-election and wrote against the odds, "It Takes A Village." Is she really a progressive?

Building a mass movement to stop mass killing

It’s time to universalize resistance.

Trump is about to be blindsided by this rapidly emerging “October Surprise”

Mr.Trump, think of this surprise as a massive political tsunami racing right at you and that there is no way that you can escape it.

COVID-19 and the parallel nuclear war and climate change threats

We can create a new and better world—but we must fully commit ourselves to it and work for it, “pressing, making changes.”

A simple rule change could trigger mass vaccine demand plus head off other insurrections

What property-driven, rights-oriented society allows protesters to both spread disease AND violate sacred boundaries?

End the war in Ukraine

No diplomatic solution is possible without serious pressure on Putin.

End of “the great game”

The old game is dead. Keep playing it and our civilization is over. Try winning that one.

This right-wing U.S. Supreme Court is the new King George III

Our most fundamental rights are being trampled by a tyrannical, unaccountable, and unelected force.

Why This New Overtime Rule Is A Big, Big Deal

Either we go with the business allies of Donald Trump who believe the extra time and labor of low-wage workers should be exploited without compensation, or we believe in restoring the bargain we used to have with lower-wage workers that they deserve the humanity of a 40-hour workweek and the fairness of time-and-a-half for working overtime.