Tuesday, September 15, 2026

How does Santos the phony phony differ from Trump the genuine phony?

Imitating Trump’s illusion of invulnerability does not protect one against self-destruction.
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Can we still find common ground?

Without a shared sense of common good, there can be no “we” to begin with.

Life IS cheap these days, but GOP thuggery is getting damned expensive

For the dim and benighted (including the Donald), politics has become anything but a profitable grift road to riches.

What in the world is happening in and to America? Has it lost its...

What in the world is happening in and to America, that’s the question that we Americans must answer as our democracy, our republic, comes under intense political attack, and may well become a thing of the past, if the former president, Donald J. Trump, is reelected.

The US Constitution may hold the key to solving the climate crisis

Drawing from U.S. case law and legislation, an argument for climate action centered on birthright equity is building momentum.
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How Amazon is ripping you off

They’re accused of using a secret algorithm, codenamed “Project Nessie,” to charge customers an estimated extra $1 billion dollars.

Oh look, police reforms didn’t work

To the surprise of no one but naive liberal backers of the police, expensive reforms to law enforcement have done nothing to curb the killings.

Harassment and assault of Jewish college students isn’t free speech, and it’s not ‘nuanced’–it’s...

Excuses made by university presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT represent criminal negligence of duty. So, why are the presidents of top Ivies offering such pitifully inadequate excuses? Perhaps it has more to do with foreign gifts to their endowments.

Getting serious about halting Israeli genocide

The real disconnect at the root of this crisis is the one between the isolated looking-glass world of U.S. and Israeli politics and the real world that is crying out for a ceasefire and justice for Palestinians.

Conformist media outlets hide realities of power. Noam Chomsky has exposed them.

For many decades, the core of corporate greed and militarism has remained basically the same. So has the core of Chomsky’s message.