Friday, February 13, 2026

The climate march, Joe Biden, and AOC’s dubious endorsement

Jeff Cohen discusses the inspiring march and AOC’s rousing speech at the rally—but ends with respectful questions about AOC’s orientation toward Biden and her endorsement of his re-election.
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How Trump killed every business he touched

Is Trump a business failure? Almost every business he’s touched, he’s driven into the ground.

The Labour Party has regained its principles and offers hope to millions

In this upcoming UK election the differences between the Conservatives and Labour are defined and stark; its importance cannot be overstated.

Is there homelessness in our future?

The only solution to homelessness is a combination of providing for more low cost housing and boosting income.

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.

Bombing Iran is part of the USA’s repetition compulsion for war war war

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”

A people’s vaccine against a mutating virus and neoliberal rule

Humanity’s survival into the twenty-second century and all our hopes for a bright future depend on building new political and economic systems that will simply and genuinely “do what is best for all of us.”

Biden is the latest president to tout the Vietnam War as proud history

Efforts to portray the U.S. government’s military actions as well-meaning and virtuous are incessant. The pretenses that falsify the past are foreshadowing excuses for future warfare.

Latin America’s new new left

The recent election in Colombia has produced new hope for the country--and for the whole region.

Trump’s ‘Trust Me’ Political Religion Parlays Revivalist-style Flimflam with McCarthyite Scapegoating, Topped with Trash...

Whether the result of calculation or a career of selling, Trump’s attention-grabbing package of dark and light explains how his national prominence surpassed an array of very talented evangelical crooks, most obscuring years of false prophesy, monetary or sexual hypocrisy.