The ludicrous absurdity of a desperately absurd Trump
Will this appalling buffoon/ Just conceive “I am immune?”
Hill Republicans: Trump is fritzing out
"He’s losing it fast. My betting is he’s out of office before the midterms. And Pence is president."
The invisible candidate and the progressive lion
As Americans on the progressive left might have expected, the one politician who is responding with the seriousness and the kind of reassuring competence that his fellow citizens need in such a difficult time, is Bernie Sanders.
The real reason American workers have it so hard
No wonder they’re unhappy. The system is working against them.
Blending capitalism and socialism
Why can't we detach personal income from industry so that we can all make rational decisions about what is good and bad for society?
Trump must choose between a global ceasefire and America’s long lost wars
Like his predecessors from Truman to Obama, Trump has been caught in the trap of America’s blind, deluded militarism.
No Denying It, Climate Change Is Happening Now
The level of denial is simply appalling. It appears increasingly unlikely that humanity will prove capable of confronting and addressing the self-destructive climate-change catastrophe that it has created.
Hillary Clinton, Paul Ryan, and the Crisis of American Capitalism
In all respects, the American political economy has become radically imbalanced.
The Living Martyrdom of St. Donald: Brace for Canonization
What’s more natural than to rise from the Apprentice to the Anointed, the presidency merely a temp job.
Another Blackrock? Nearly 100 US mercenaries are in Gaza right now
96 American special forces are patrolling a checkpoint in the middle of Gaza, as Palestinians return to their homes in the north. If the history of American mercenaries tells us anything, then this could be deadly.