Crime Can Pay if It’s Big Enough
For banksters like Goldman Sachs, federal criminal settlements are just a cost of doing business.
Trump’s war on the truth tellers
Trump is actively destroying the truth-telling institutions our democracy depends on.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson Takes High-School Detention To A New Level
Is "Operation Border Guardian" intended to create fear among those still in Central America who might consider taking the perilous journey north to the U.S.?
The gaping hole in Trump’s border wall
The problem with Trump's bombastic presidential promises is that they turn out to be duds.
Harriet Tubman And The Currency Of Resistance
The story of Harriet Tubman, of her courageous resistance to injustice, of her fight to free slaves, for equality for women - all this must be the common currency of our democracy.
Biden/Harris and the progressive case against a ‘return to normal’
Come January 20th, the American left will need to be ready to fight for a seat at the table in an incoming administration that seems less and less inclined to woo them the closer he gets to taking office.
The current US Supreme Court is not constitutionally legitimate
Dobbs is a watershed attack that will come to be known as an infamous consolidation of an unrelenting extremist assault on this country's gains for equality and justice.
Making America meaner
A president contributes to setting the norms of our society. Trump is setting them at a new low.
The taint on Trump
What has our country become? A country that accepts rapists as their leaders?
The End is Nigh: Repent, Read Fast, Rush the Exits
"I can't decide if I am more surprised that the world hasn't already ended (and this is some phantom universe), that America hasn't fallen on its face, or that Hillary sounds more liberal than ever."