Kindergarten quiz time! Want a violence-prone, tantrum-throwing, fundamentalist minority in charge – or incremental,...
Top to bottom, Rethuglicans are on parade, leaving neither the vicious means nor the unholy ends to the imagination.
Entering Uncharted Territory in Washington
As the latest heat records indicate, we are, for the first time, on a planet in decline. And if that isn’t uncharted territory, what is?
The Democrats Ignore the 500-Pound Lobbyist in the Room
As party members meet to approve a new platform, they pay little attention to the industry that's destroying government and politics.
Trump is taking on Wall Street, literally
The next administration will have plenty of billionaires – and no working class populists.
The Left needs to be a movement, not a bunch of lobbyists
We need to focus on big demands and big issues that benefit all but the ruling elites and that will fundamentally change the way the country operates.
Would a Berniecrat have won Ossoff’s Georgia race?
Democrats must turn sharply left on both economic and social issues if they are to have a chance of regaining Congress in the future.
Why the only answer is to break up the biggest Wall Street banks
Why should banks ever be permitted to use peoples’ bank deposits – insured by the federal government – to place risky bets on the banks’ own behalf?
Rethinking Medicare for All – slightly
In running a social system, we really need to decide when and how wealth can be used to “buy your way” into a better level of treatment.
Senate Republicans are allowing themselves to be used as pawns by McConnell to save...
“Listen up, Senate Republicans and understand that you also are the ones who are on trial alongside Trump.”
All bets are off as Republican democracy killers concoct ever-scarier nightmares
While Democrats work at marginal political solutions, the radical right heads for the rocks, crying “full steam ahead.”