Monday, November 2, 2026

The Ides of March Primaries

An unbiased appraisal of Sanders' returns at the half-way point.

A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all.

Donald Trump’s proto-fascism poses the largest internal threat to American democracy since the Civil War.

Bernie busts Uncle Joe

I am happy to point out that Bernie raised a lot of money in a single day and no one in the media (except LA Progressive and yours truly, plus a lot of tweets and Reddit postings), pointed this out.

The persecution of Steven Donziger

“Why am I the one being locked up? I helped hold [Chevron] accountable.”

How badly will Trump trash the GOP? Truly, ‘Everything he touches dies.’

With the inevitability of Greek tragedy, Trump’s fate is not for me a mystery: he will go down, and hard, and the only question that remains: will the hijacked Republican follow suit?

2020 Vision: Four Steps to Get There

The progressive vision for 2020 is focused on the needs of average working people, on the strength of society rather than on winner-take-all individualism, on the cooperative efforts of underpaid people who have been forced out of the middle class.

How to beat Trump

As the primary season goes on, and if there is no clear winner emerging, the voters are going to want to see the Democrats emerge as an organized group, and not a warring faction.

Great mask furor: Monkey trials redux. Faith alone vs. science and reason

How much disease and death is enough to force this nation to learn from failure, reject T.V. magic shows and return to sane science?

‘Israel’s 9/11’ is a slogan to rationalize open-ended killing of Palestinian civilians

“The horrific cycle of violence in the Middle East will not end until the Israeli occupation ends—and a huge obstacle to ending the occupation has been the U.S. government.”

The right wing wet dream, ‘Tyranny of the minority’ exposed, cracking under pressure

The definition of a regional party is one incapable of electing a president, thus it must undermine elections, citizenship and majority rule to have a chance.