Wednesday, July 1, 2026

What if every American entering the government had to take a lie detector and...

Let's explore a fictitious scenario in which every person who wanted to be considered for a government job would have to take both a lie detector and a mental test, and pass them, to be accepted.

Is this the beginning or the end of a new Cold War?

The United States and our friends in Europe have a new chance to make a clean break from the three-way geopolitical power struggle between the United States, Russia and China that has hamstrung the world since the 1970s.

‘Stonewall’ Sessions leads the charge of the Trump brigade

The attorney general's testimony before the Senate intelligence committee was more smoke and mirrors.

Capitalism’s unequal distribution deprives you of true freedom

Conflicts over income, wealth distribution, and wealth redistribution are thus intrinsic to capitalism and always have been.

Poor people aren’t involved in politics. Can activists change that?

Organizers hope to amplify the voices of those who will be hit hardest by Trump's policies.

How union members honor workers Memorial Day

April 28 is Workers Memorial Day in America and the Day of Mourning in Canada, a time to remember those killed, injured, or sickened at work.

Jeff Sessions sets back the clock

How low can he go? And how far back can this Attorney General take us?

When and how do reluctant Dems ‘Cry ‘Havoc!’ and let slip the dogs of war-like...

Trumpism will push all limits until stopped by a greater coalition, like 200 judicial rebukes and a political surge no amateur insurrectionists can deny. We need far more than Dem mice that roar but don’t bite.

The Catonsville nine, 50 years later

"What are your future plans?" "Resistance!"

All Forms of Life Are Sacred

Just because animals are cognitively different from us, why is it people's belief that they have lesser moral value? Using them is the ultimate problem—it does not matter how well we treat them.