Thursday, March 12, 2026

Tag: elections

Looming midterm demands again airing out the nature and extent of...

Stupids are more dangerous than criminals. You can’t fix Stupids and their irrationality hurts everyone, without upsides.

The election deniers on the ballot: What you need to know

If we don’t stop them from taking over the election process, we can kiss what’s left of our democracy goodbye.

Steps left for electing Progressives and defeating Republicans in the midterms

Stopping unhinged Republicans will require that often-deplorable Democrats defeat them.

How Republicans could steal the next presidential election

Your vote is important, and not just in federal elections. The future of our democracy is not guaranteed.

Kindergarten quiz time! Want a violence-prone, tantrum-throwing, fundamentalist minority in charge...

Top to bottom, Rethuglicans are on parade, leaving neither the vicious means nor the unholy ends to the imagination.

Will gun-shy Dems ever learn this core (if alarming) Trump lesson—relentless...

Democrats must treat voters as consumers who view politics (rightly) as “another marketable product.” A coherent party must deliver big, core, election-winning achievements—if only to avoid a mid-term bloodbath.

Upcoming 2022 primaries: A handful of voters will decide who’s on...

American voters are passionate, but they don’t think voting in primaries matters.

New efforts seek to build trust in elections, in the face...

Believers of Trump’s big lie about the 2020 election continue to ignore national media and election experts. Will they be convinced by poll workers and local leaders to trust the democratic process again?

Supreme Court conservatives about to kill fair elections permanently

Our nation is at a legal and ethical crossroads, where we must choose between actual ‘rule of law,’ or the rule of ‘judicial capture.'

America: One big commercial!

We get more and more commercials as the newest election cycle approaches.

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The $5.6 billion opening salvo: inside the staggering cost of Trump’s war on Iran

New reporting reveals that the United States burned through billions in munitions within days of launching its assault on Iran, highlighting the scale of the military campaign and its mounting financial and humanitarian toll.

How 300 billionaires poured $3 billion into the 2024 elections

A tiny fraction of donors supplied nearly one-fifth of all federal campaign spending as billionaire influence surged to unprecedented levels.

The war on Iran—and Washington’s missing exit strategy

That means inflicting real costs: U.S. casualties, political backlash at home, strained relations with allies, global economic disruption and a further erosion of Washington’s standing in the world.

After loneliness

Left for dead in Donald Trump's America; could communal life stir?

US-Israel strikes on Iranian oil depots trigger environmental disaster and historic oil shock

Bombing of energy infrastructure in Tehran sparks toxic rainfall warnings, record crude price surge, and accusations of war crimes as fires and smoke engulf Iran’s capital.