The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get
Is the barbarism we condemn the barbarism we commit? Chris Hedges discusses the line that separates the U.S. from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and how terror has become the engine of war.
Don’t rush impeachment: Let non-stop scandals pulverize the GOP brand
The greatest obstacle to progress – an intact, corrupt Republican Party that escapes severe punishment – must be decimated. A criminal lame duck president is the ideal battering ram to produce a lame duck national party.
Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
It's time we continue the rumblings of rebellion that already frighten the corporate state because dismantling corporate power in community after community is perhaps our only chance of survival.
Warning (if you needed it): Trump is nuts, and he’ll do anything—anything—to win
And he's running for re-election.
To impeach or not – is that the question?
The tragic miss to chronic crimes: refusing to learn from error.
Cheating the School Kids: Corporations Don’t Pay Their STATE Taxes, Either
It's hard for a nation to build work skills when its corporations have largely stopped paying for education. Both federal and state corporate tax avoidance is at a stunning rate. This is millions of dollars that isn't going to state taxes, which fund public education.
The myth of voter fraud – and the truth about what’s threatening our elections
The next time you hear Trump and his enablers claim widespread voter fraud, know the truth.
Forget Andrew Jackson. The Right thinks Trump is Calvin Coolidge!
Comparisons are odious, and contrary to conservative opinion, Noisy Donald Trump is no Silent Cal.
Trump and the geopolitics of crazy
The times they are a-changin’ in North Korea.
Requiem for the Home Front
Tom Engelhardt tells a little story about a bottle, a message, time, war (American-style), his mother and himself. Here's to Irma the caricaturist.