Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Tag: democracy

War is bad for you—and the economy

The military-industrial complex will have yet another never-ending claim on our scarce national resources.

How to deal with an insurrectionist

Jair Bolsonaro and his top supporters are under investigation for their failed attempt to overthrow the country's democracy.

Sanders sounds alarm: Trump win spells disaster for democracy

In an impassioned warning, Bernie Sanders delves into the dire consequences for American democracy if Donald Trump secures victory in 2024, amidst escalating political and environmental crises.

Trump the terminator?

Could his second presidency signal the end of American global power?

Socialism’s self-criticism and real democracy

Whatever forms of government (including representative-electoral) coexist with class-divided economic systems, the hard reality is that one class rules the other.

On the brink: Supreme Court may endanger Voting Rights Act’s legacy

Facing a historic legal challenge, the Voting Rights Act's future hangs in balance.

This master framework—complexity vs. over-simplification—separates all serious debate from hokum

While those favoring complexity see foes as ignorant or wrongheaded, reductionists insist not only is “their truth” the only truth, but foes act from malice and bad faith.

The highly-revealing election dogs that didn’t bark, isolating howling, blowhard election...

Baseless election denial delusions make former Joe McCarthy or Nixon backers look downright reality-bound.

Shocking revelation: Trump’s secret “Agenda47” and Project 2025 unveiled—threatening democracy’s very...

The aim of building an ideological army to push forward a far-right authoritarian agenda in 2025.

The Big Fix sticks: nothing impedes Trumpist fealty to its endlessly...

Will ANY Trump crime or conviction, no matter how heinous or despicable, alienate backers who not only believe Trump is incapable of evil but also see him as the lone savior against countless enemies?

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Donald Trump’s greatest ‘triumph’

I’m thinking, of course, about climate change.

Denying coverage with AI: CMS’s new Medicare model

Funneling money to for-profit companies by rewarding them for denying health care coverage through using unproven, manipulable AI models is not the answer.

Nuclear reactors stoke the climate they claim to cool

Heatwaves force European reactors offline while solar keeps the lights on.

What else but seething, punitive MAGA grievance explains its undying loyalty – absent real-world...

Whatever MAGA lives lack, brutalizing the even less powerful won’t resolve their miseries.

Seven children killed in Israeli strike on Gaza water site amid growing evidence of...

As Israel admits to a “technical error” in a drone strike that killed children waiting for water, new reports detail a systemic campaign of targeting Gaza’s basic survival infrastructure under U.S. and Western-backed military operations.