Friday, October 23, 2026
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Can we still find common ground?

Without a shared sense of common good, there can be no “we” to begin with.

Going to the Daytime Emmys

There was once a literate public. This is gone now, replaced by a vast burlesque.

Kitchen logic: Don’t let Trump’s GOP privatize America

Why privatize our national patrimony when we have the money to repair it ourselves?

Corporate media and ‘moderate’ democrats are defending the oligarchy against Bernie Sanders

If Biden, Buttigieg, Klobuchar or Bloomberg win the Democratic presidential nomination, that would be a triumph for oligarchy in the midst of rising grassroots opposition.

A pandemic has infected the Republican Party—it has one name and many faces

“What we do have is we have perhaps the lowest, but among the lowest, but perhaps the lowest, mortality rate—death rate—anywhere in the world.”

Workers matter and government works: Eight lessons from the pandemic

Here are some lessons we’ve learned from it.

56% of Muslim Americans support women’s right to choose, and more Muslim-majority nations offer...

The American conviction that all Muslims are fundamentalists has led to a misunderstanding of Muslim societies.

Seriously auditing the rich makes sense. Seriously taxing the rich can save us.

The affluent gang at Patriotic Millionaires is making the case for an entirely new tax system.