Wednesday, October 14, 2026

What Can You Possibly Buy for 47 Cents These Days?

Here's a reality the sloppy corporate media ignores: Our postal network costs taxpayers zero, for we consumers finance its operations by purchasing stamps and other services.

How Obama’s ‘All of the Above’ Politics Led to the Rise of Bernie Sanders...

The feeling that Obama’s administration was in many ways a continuation of rather than a break with Bush is one of the things impelling voters on both sides of the aisle to support mavericks. Here are what Juan Cole see as turning points in Obama’s gradual betrayal of hope and change.

Will Biden be a rerun of 2016 tragedy?

As a throwback to the Clintonite 1990s, Biden says he feels the pain of victims but won’t name many villains.

Why Trump must make Putin smile

Whose interest is served by all this clownish chaos?

Program on climate change—and then the heat hits

Extreme weather events have come with fury. Ocean warming is unabated and the sea level rise is accelerating. There’s urgency.

Lift the Supreme Court’s veil of secrecy

These nine individuals make decisions that affect every American. Why should they get to do it secretly?

Still MIA: Decisive democratic narrative that frames a winning game plan

Right-wing hegemony won’t be dislodged until Democrats formulate a breakthrough narrative that topples cynical, predatory Trump-massaged propaganda.

Trump’s IgNobel Peace Prize

As if these six victories are not enough, stay tuned for new peace treaties that will end the Wars on Science, Education, Rational Thought, a Free Press, and "the big one"!—Habeas Corpus.

FCC’s attack on net neutrality fuels movement for Internet equality and justice

The people of the Internet have power that will not be ignored.

2024 word of the year: Genocide (as in, Gaza)

Many of those contesting the charge of genocide against Israel do not understand the current technical definition of the term.