Thursday, August 14, 2025

Creating a national security state “democracy”

Or how the American political system changed and no one noticed.

America’s nuclear gamble: The dangerous push to resume atmospheric testing

Experts warn of catastrophic fallout as calls grow to restart nuclear weapons tests abandoned since 1963.

The return of American race laws

Bannon knows no more about war’s reality than he sees in Hollywood movies.

Workers of the Future, Unite

We need to prepare for a future in which advances in productivity – from technology or other sources – are shared more equally than they are today.

Country First: Why John McCain Must Dump Trump

"Country first" requires McCain to repudiate Trump, tell the truth about what he represents, and accept the political consequences.

Trump steals the gold – quickest presidential laughingstock

“End this failed experiment” bellows Speaker Ryan on Obamacare. Ditto, millions say to Trumpery.

Reactionaries in ragged retreat: A wingnut brew of bottom-dwellers

Trump politics are in shambles, whatever he and lackeys try boomerang, and why should anything change in the next five months?

The Share-the-Scraps Economy

We are barreling toward a “share” economy where robots do everything predictably programmable in advance and human beings do all of the unpredictable tasks. This is the troubling reality of the new digitized economy.

Can U.S. Progressives work with the European left on Ukraine?

Those who condemn American imperialism must condemn Russian imperialism as well.