Tuesday, September 15, 2026

If you don’t have good health care, neither should your rep

Until they deliver for the whole public, the public owes them nothing.

Pendulum justice: The greater MAGA’s orgy of outrages, the more change looms

Under duress, wealth shares its spoils,/ But never forsakes its octopus coils.

A tax on Wall Street trading is the best solution to income inequality

This is a great example of a clearly defined policy that will directly reverse some of the upward redistribution of income over the last four decades.

‘Escalation dominance’. . . and the prospect of more than 1,000 Holocausts

Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”

The Perils of Circus Politics

No opinion leader any longer commands enough broad-based respect to influence a majority of the public. Circus politics may be fun to watch, but it’s profoundly dangerous for America and the world.

November 6, 2018; the mother of all elections will take place in America

America has now arrived at this most critical crossroads and its people must choose the fork in the road that leads to turning this government around.

Trump is signaling an unprecedented right turn on foreign policy

From his feud with Bob Corker to his plans to renege on the Iran deal, Trump's mood swings mean a dangerous new era of foreign policy.

Four Reasons Young Americans Should Burn Their Student Loan Papers

Protest against student loans is a good way to earn the first dividend in the proposed America Permanent Fund. Here are four reasons students should take up the fight against financial firms holding high-interest student loans.

Trump’s Labor Day

Tragically, Trump was right. Now all of us are paying the price.

The GOP’s Dirty Dozen: 12 ways Republicans use the federal government to undermine

Anyone who votes for the Republican ticket out of general frustration or because they thrill to Trump's on-stage antics or mistrust people who seem different from themselves, should reflect on how a Republican victory will affect what really matters to all of us.