History must record Trump’s plan for a nationwide ‘Kent State’ massacre
there are two particularly chilling passages in Jack Smith’s indictment of Trump: Both, to my mind, invoke Kent State, but on a much larger scale.
US leaders are split on China policy
China adjusts to the twists and turns in the United States’ split policy approach.
Me First
America 19th, the planet last.
Can we measure inequality without tallying the wealth of our wealthy?
Hundreds of prestigious economists don’t think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.
Give Trump the literal ‘jury of his peers’ he demands – that’s indisputable justice,...
The problem with a true Trump jury of his peers – if they’re just as greedy, nasty, and selfish -- is upsetting expectations, even stumbling over truth.
Is Earth close to ‘the great dying’?
The climate emergency is here. We can’t wait any longer for major and dramatic worldwide action.
How America can better care for its veterans
Veterans deserve a system of care that serves them as reliably as they did the nation.
Decades later, the US government called Hiroshima and Nagasaki ‘nuclear tests’
U.S. military strategists were eager “to use the bomb first where its effects would not only be politically effective, but also technically measurable.”
Two roads diverge in a gonzo Trump wood—and losers loom
If DeSantis only broke more laws, / He’d be as popular as Santa Claus.
True responsibility and the need for change
Change is essential if we are to survive, systemic/institutional change flowing from individual change and a shift in attitudes.