Forget the Voting Rights bill: Here’s how to destroy GOP voter suppression
The lesson to be learned here? When you are faced with a massive obstacle, aka, the Republicans in U.S. Senate blocking your way, then you must either go around it, over it, under it, or right through it.
How storied artist Mel Chin’s ‘constant revolution’ is tackling humanity’s environmental challenges
For this MacArthur fellow, art is a powerful tool for addressing complex environmental issues.
The patriotism of killing and being killed
Why are patriotism and war so intertwined in U.S. media and politics?
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.
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.
Travel to Cuba falls victim to John Bolton’s wrath
The Cuban people, and the rights of Americans, should not be held hostage to brazen partisan politics.
The roots of the Capitol insurrection
Allowing them and their followers to distance themselves from what happened would be the kind of strategic blunder we too often see from the centrist wing of the Democratic Party.
The high stakes of the US-Russia confrontation over Ukraine
The U.S. must step back from the brink of a U.S.-Russia war, and then from the larger Cold War with China and Russia that they have so blindly and foolishly stumbled into.
CPAC goes to Hungary
CPAC Hungary shows that a kind of far right international is forming.
Why Should You and I Have to Keep Paying Mitch McConnell’s Salary?
We're paying this guy a salary of $174,000 a year, plus another $19,400 for his "service" as majority leader. It's insulting that he won't even go through the motions of doing his job.