The Age of the Demagogues
Are we in an age of demagogues? The collapse of our political and cultural institutions has turned charlatans and thugs such as presidential hopeful Donald Trump into viable candidates.
Don’t know much about history
Donald Trump thinks his intuition is better than knowledge of the past. That’s dangerous for him and all the rest of us.
Beyond ‘no’ and the limits of ‘yes’: A review of Naomi Klein’s ‘No Is...
No is not enough. But yes is not enough, either. Our fate lies in the joy and grief of maybe.
Do-it-yourselfers unite!
People have been fixing stuff ever since stuff was invented. Now big corporations want to change that.
“We are what America looks like”: The trials of ‘the Squad’
“Our squad is big. Our squad includes any person committed to building a more equitable and just world and that is the...
Year-end insights galore, but what will we, can we learn from calamity?
On display: full combat between the forces of ignorance, bigotry, deception and propaganda vs. knowledge, understanding, wisdom and besieged aspirations of justice and equality.
The beginning of the end of democracy as we know it?
Will history record that Republican senators were more united in their opposition to democracy than Democratic senators are in their support for it?
US militarism’s toxic impact on climate policy
That will require the United States to seriously reduce the military budget and commit to peaceful, practical diplomacy with China and Russia.
Despite cutbacks, ExxonMobil continues to fund climate science denial
ExxonMobil has spent more than $39 million to manufacture doubt about climate science.
Biden refuses to mention the worsening dangers of nuclear war. Media and Congress enable...
“I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction.”