At Trump inauguration, his hollow rhetoric collides with reality
The contrast between his promises to America's forgotten and the greed of the new president and his circle of fat cat appointees is horrible.
Afghan crisis must end America’s empire of war, corruption and poverty
The United States can either stumble on in its fruitless attempt to control the world through militarism and coercion, or it can use this opportunity to rethink its place in the world.
Do better than a rip-off health care system
Universal care would unite our society under the essential democratic principle that we Americans really are "all in this together."
Time to Recover Productivity Gains Our Bosses Have Expropriated for Decades
If we can’t make the bosses pay more to their employees, the least we can do is make the them pay more into those workers’ Social Security fund. How to accomplish that? Just raise just the employer share of the payroll tax.
Right-wing mayhem regorges Social Darwinism, poster child for scandalous, authoritarian bunk
History does not repeat, but in this case it emphatically rhymes. With Trumpist war cries for his New Nazism, we cannot avoid the obvious parallels.
Whatever happened to the Republican Party that stood for limited government?
Today’s Republican Party, while still claiming to stand for limited government, is practicing just the opposite: government intrusion everywhere.
The Most Dangerous Women in America
Is a new party essential if the corporate coup is to be reversed? Kshama Sawant, the socialist on the City Council in Seattle that is up for re-election, certainly thinks so. She is calling for this national party to be formed now.
Is frenzied religiosity a luxury that democracy, let alone civilized order can no longer...
Hypocrisy prize winner: a compassion-, life-inspired faith now hawks an intolerant parade of death trips
Though quests for religious...
Obama: A great president or a sell-out?
Those of us who were there at the 2008 election – and who worked hard for Obama to win – remember Hope and Change.
Israeli Strikes Wound Journalists in Lebanon and Gaza amid “Ceasefires”
The strikes come days after ceasefires were announced in both Gaza and Lebanon.