Sunday, February 15, 2026

Mulvaney’s in, bankers win, and Trump shafts Americans again

Donald Trump was hostile to the CFPB from the start, and he said this as he shoehorned Mulvaney into the director’s chair.

Republicans see the light, no longer will submit to Trump’s domination

In a stunning, totally unforeseen turn of events, key Senate and House Republicans, after meeting in an 8-hour secret session, suddenly announced...

How Congress loots the Treasury for the military-industrial-congressional complex

How the conjunction of dysfunctional military leadership, an ever-growing arms industry and a Congress that keeps handing them trillions of dollars, constitutes the full flowering of President Eisenhower's greatest fears for the future of the United States.

Choosing Life

Farmers often display genuine affection for the animals they abuse and send to slaughter. Have we created a belief system that inures people to suffering in a culture that kills? It's time we restore balance to the earth and our lives.

New Year’s update for Trump voters

Here's all the things Trump promised to do, but hasn't.

Progressives need a united front for Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren

The need for a Sanders-Warren united front should be clear -- as clear as the imperative of rolling back the monstrous right-wing power that has controlled the presidency during the last three years.

The Employees’ Side of the Wells Fargo Scandal

Banks like Wells Fargo use poverty-level wages and job insecurity to force employees to do unethical things they couldn’t otherwise get them to do.

Insurrection going strong as MAGA defies law, trials, elections, civil liberties and the Constitution

Bad faith losers thrive if never made social pariahs whose nullification must be nullified. Solipsism, like being talked to death, is a terrible way to die.

Settler colonialism: ‘It Ends With Us’ in Palestine and Israel

This article refers to both these incidents to analyze the current Palestine-Israel catastrophe.

How to fight Trump without caving to corporatists

The DNC should provide leadership at times like these. But there’s still no leadership, several months into a second Trump regime that’s much worse than the first.