Tuesday, September 15, 2026
The South Lawn of the White House. Photo: Daniel Schwen / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The sadistic MAGA Trump Death Spiral twists and turns – a fierce test for...

Motto for the Trump gang could well be J. Robert Oppenheimer’s chilling admission, “Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”
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The sedition that nobody’s talking about

These CEOs and their corporations don’t actually care about protecting democracy. They care only about protecting their bottom line.

How Mesopotamia’s urban and industrial revolution started politics as we know it today

Giorgio Buccellati’s At the Origins of Politics takes readers to the early stages of a process that became the structure of modern life.

Ten Ideas to Save the Economy #5: How to Reinvent Education

We’re paying investment bankers hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars a year to make money for Wall Street. We ought to be paying educators and staff a decent wage to develop and guide the nation’s human capital – an investment that would benefit everyone.

How Medicaid helps to empower Americans and build a stronger nation

Americans fervently support Medicaid, in part because so many depended on it at one time or know someone who survived because of it.

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.

‘Only the people can save the people,’ say migrant workers

The National Day Laborers Organizing Network (NDLON) embodies an ethos of “solidarity, not charity,” in both fire relief and immigrant rights.

Déjà vu all over again

Such consequences that you have never encountered in your history.

How the Loser-in-chief sabotages the midterm – better a trumped up martyr than disaster-driven...

Haranguing, bonkers and beset,/ “Victim” Trump makes his riskiest bet.

Democrats irritated by voters who elected them need an attitude adjustment

While Trump’s forces are setting fire to the basic structures of American democracy, Democrats in Congress are widely perceived to be wielding squirt guns.