To scam an investigative reporter: The Trump and Woodward interview
It’s clear that Woodward, of course a superb investigative reporter, prepared well for the Trump interviews. He was ready.
What’s the point of subsidizing fossil fuels?
The industry fights to keep going and not to have to bear the cost itself of the environmental harm which it causes.
UnFounding Father
Until we understand that Trump isn’t an aberration, but the zeitgeist, and that simply removing him from the Oval Office won’t solve our problems, we aren’t anywhere at all.
Remember when bad guys were engaging, even charming outlaws shielded by media trickery? Not...
Why start a horrendous global tariff ambush without having any good escapes? The outcomes will only humiliate Trump.
Free Trade and Globalization Designed To Screw Workers
The fact that trade has exposed manufacturing workers to international competition, but not doctors and lawyers, was a policy choice, not a natural development.
Four Score and Seven Years Ago… at Disney World
Have we been living in a futuristic science fiction novel through the most bizarre American century yet? Tom Engelhardt discusses the demobilization of the American people and the spectacle of the 2016 elections.
Seeds of Democratic Revolution in Ethiopia: Thousands March Against the Ruling Regime
Such violent, crude methods will only succeed for so long: eventually the people will unite and revolt, as they are now doing, and all strength to their cause, which is wholly just.
Personal interview: Coleen Rowley What are the Prospects for Peace?
In this fifth installment of the '"What are the Prospects for Peace?" interview series, Coleen Cowley talks about the realities of the international power struggle unfolding in real time.
Musk’s and Bezos’s great escape
It’s understandable that the super wealthy might wish to escape the gravitational pull of the rest of us. But there’s really no escape.
Is “one nation, indivisible,” with “justice for all” any less clear a mandate than...
If one connives to deny elections their paramount place in democracy, why not defy law, courts, precedents and thus justice?