Saturday, August 22, 2026

Conformist media outlets hide realities of power. Noam Chomsky has exposed them.

For many decades, the core of corporate greed and militarism has remained basically the same. So has the core of Chomsky’s message.

Donald Trump’s mission creep just took a giant leap forward

In just a few days, the new president has upended the rules of democracy with a clumsy, heavy-handedness worse than we imagined.
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4 reasons why Trump’s plan to strip the IRS is incredibly dumb

Donald Trump hates the IRS and has spent years battling it.

Passing the Torch: From Julian Bond to Black Lives Matter

Civil-rights pioneer Julian Bond died last week at the age of 75. Bond was a big supporter of Black Lives Matter, which has been challenging business as usual, bringing the issues of racism and inequality to a broad audience.

It’s time to change more than Trump

We have real work to do.

In or out of power, with no positive agenda in sight, today’s rightwing flunks...

Still undetermined: the degree to which this Cult Leader will sabotage his own hijacked party’s chances in the mid-term.

Supreme Court preserves college preferences for wealthy whites

In its recent ruling on affirmative action in college admissions, the Supreme Court’s conservative justices squarely came down on the side of race and class-based preferences—for wealthy whites.

Obamacare’s biggest problem is profit, not government

Democrats’ political prospects will suffer if they cling to Obamacare’s less popular and less effective provisions.

VIDEO: #9 Make Polluters Pay Us

We can clean our environment and strengthen the economy if we start charging polluters for poisoning our skies. It's time we stop investing in dirty fuels.

Trump’s shareholder bonanza

Make no mistake: Trump and the Republicans are working on behalf of America’s biggest and richest investors, not American workers.