Sunday, August 23, 2026

Will Biden’s dog whistles for racism catch up with him?

Denial of that reality could help him win the party’s nomination -- and then help Donald Trump get re-elected.

Declawed special prosecutor: A mockery of independence and justice

Here's today's predictable nightmare when legislation imprisoned the Special Prosecution role under the Dept. of Justice. Or more accurately, in Trumpian times the slavish Dept. of Injustice and Coverup.

Trump breaks world records for longest tax audit, if not presidential scandals

Why doesn’t every pundit and every journalist keep repeating: “Deliver the returns. Cut the audit BS. End the legal smoke and mirrors.”

As Coasts Flood, Why Isn’t the Corporate Press Asking Candidates About Climate Change?

It is also possible that corporate capitalism, which both runs the candidates and runs the so-called “news” companies, is about as good at dealing with a rapidly changing environment as the dodo was.

History must record Trump’s plan for a nationwide ‘Kent State’ massacre

there are two particularly chilling passages in Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump: Both, to my mind, invoke Kent State, but on a much larger scale.

Aetna Shows Why We Need a Single Payer

Two choice are emerging: one is a public single-payer system. The other is a hugely-expensive for-profit oligopoly with the market power to charge high prices even to healthy people – and to charge sick people an arm and a leg.

Imagine you are a poor nation, trapped by debt and strangled by climate change—what...

Climate change, debt, and development have a caustic relationship, hindering economic justice and national advancement, but solutions exist.

Poor people aren’t involved in politics. Can activists change that?

Organizers hope to amplify the voices of those who will be hit hardest by Trump's policies.

Are we free to do what we want with our bodies?

Summing up, women and men should be free to do what they want with their bodies within reasonable limits.