Protests at the pump
The first major protest of the post-Communist era in Eastern Europe was not about corruption. It wasn’t about disappointments with democracy.
Hey, hey, USA! How many bombs did you drop today?
The Pentagon has finally published its first Airpower Summary since President Biden took office nearly a year ago. These monthly reports have been published...
Worshiping markets, genuflecting to grand fortune
Our conventional political wisdom, here in the United States, tends to see utopians as lefty egalitarians of one sort or another, clueless...
Does stirring Biden rhetoric impede the new, improved, fascist mania—or reform unjust systems?
Until Democrats wake up that their future and the country’s both depend on urgently slamming shut anti-democratic doors and empowering true majority rule, fine rhetoric falls flat.
As job gains slow, the Fed and Congress apply the wrong medicine
This is hardly the time to put on the fiscal brakes.
Still in the rabbit hole: 1 year after the Capitol siege the American right...
From the beginning, it was obvious 2021 wouldn’t bring an end to many things that the progressive left hoped they’d seen the...
What will we remember of 2022?
Let me start 2022 by heading back — way, way back — for a moment.
It’s easy to forget...
Yearly wrap: Handful of good, loads of bad, onslaughts of ugly
Thus, the ugliest consequence to wasting billions on Pentagon missiles rather than funding education—stupidity—is a greater threat even than climate change.
Anti-vaxxers: The albatross wrapped around America’s neck
95% of living Americans will be fully vaccinated. America will then see the Covid-19 virus not disappear completely, but become relatively harmless, very much like the flu.
Pink tide rising? Gabriel Boric wins power in Chile, birthplace of neoliberalism
Barring coups and outside meddling, Latin America may see another ‘pink tide’ that brings even more progressive change than the one earlier in this century.