Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Threatening military intervention in Venezuela during a pandemic?

President Trump has no business deploying U.S. military assets against Venezuela, a country that in no shape or form represents a threat to the security of the United States, especially not now when a pandemic is raging around the world and in our own country.

Why America cannot afford to let the US Postal Service go bankrupt

The agency’s importance is growing. Come November, American democracy may depend on it.

Ethiopia’s volatile path to democracy

Political parties aligned along ethnic lines intensifies existing divisions; political groups need to evolve that are free from any specific ethnic association.

Crocodile tears on corporate taxes

“Outrageous,” screeched the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “It doesn’t feel fair,” whimpered a top corporate executive. The wailing by those...

NatCon kingmaker?

The most dangerous thing about rightwing populism or ‘National Conservatism’ is that the plutocrats that fund it and have become its standard bearers pretend that they have the interests of working people at heart.

Beyond resistance: The story of 2016

Maybe someday we’ll look back and say this was the year a revolution began.

For Canada, the insane, insulting Trump land theft stunt is DOA – and GOP...

Why would any functional country, one actively welcoming diversity, science, modernity and democratic values, join incendiary, polarized, know-nothing American dysfunction?

Taking on ‘Mayor 1 Percent’

Reclaim Chicago is a campaign to put people’s candidates up against incumbent city council members who’ve been "tail-wagging lapdogs for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s corporate rule." It's time a winning people’s movement makes a change in Chicago.

To quit or not to acquit, that was the question

It is, of course, the day the Republican majority in the U.S Senate decided to quit the Constitution rather than not to acquit a tyrannical president.

A good news storyline: Trump repudiated, Biden steady but insufficient. Enter systemic reformers.

Biden is no FDR. To expect systemic reform from Biden is naive but to envision him as a stepping stone is good progressive strategy.