Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Why Trump must think twice before he pardons Flynn

By now it must be obvious even to Trump that a pardon for Flynn – or any Mueller defendant or target – would put the final touch on an obstruction of justice brief against him.

Feminism Unheeded

The debate within feminism over trans, "transgenderism" and transsexualism—varying in terms—goes back to the 1970s and continues today. Is there an endemic of sexual violence in the contemporary U.S.?

Is “one nation, indivisible,” with “justice for all” any less clear a mandate than...

If one connives to deny elections their paramount place in democracy, why not defy law, courts, precedents and thus justice?
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Turning the moral injury of war into moral outrage for change

Our job is to turn moral injury into moral outrage and transform the United States into an exceptional humanitarian nation.

Brand loyalties dominate our life choices—but party brands are hardly created equal

Sorry, but a convicted scoundrel struggling to stay out of jail only to become a fascist commando sounds like a miracle way to lose.

Stupefied yet? What’s left but renaming: ‘Trumpington, DC’ or ‘Trump Tower White House’?

To coin a phrase, “To the spoiled victors go the victorious spoils.”

The Choice Ahead: A Private Health-Insurance Monopoly or a Single Payer

If we continue in the direction we’re headed we’ll soon have a health insurance system dominated by two or three mammoth for-profit corporations capable of squeezing employees and consumers for all they’re worth – and handing over the profits to their shareholders and executives.

Global problems are far-reaching, permanent & inter-connected. Nationalistic responses are political, tribal,...

The Age of Nationalism (the last few centuries) must now for the health of all shift to the Age of One World.

The Case for Superdelegates Selecting Sanders

It’s time to bring the newly energized electorate to the polls and to see the powerful vision of superdelegates come to fruition.

The monsters of American capitalism

Three of its prime exemplars: Trump, Bankman-Fried's, and Musk!