Tag: politics

When nominations and campaigns get corrupted, elections are inevitably degraded – and forget rational governance by capable leaders.

“The fact that his personal emails weren’t provided to us until after he left could mean that he was actively trying to hide something or that he was just as cavalier about records policy as he was about all the other rules on government accountability and ethics. Both are bad.”

In this century, Americans have been in something like a contest of avoidance when it came to what their country and the planet it garrisons were becoming. If anything, Donald J. Trump has only made that avoidance easier...

These right wing leaders, show that much of the world, rather than embracing extended democracy and social liberalism, is backsliding into some kind of authoritarian nationalism.

"These Democrats have no excuse: their constituents want them to support real net neutrality and the entire rest of their party has already done so."

A world traveling at Trump speed is, to use the president’s own words (and punctuation), “a very dangerous place!”

"Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”

Welcome to the struggle for the country’s soul. We haven’t seen anything yet.

We have words for those who elevate internal, non-logical feelings over mind – contrary to what that vast conspiracy of humanity calls consensual knowledge: delusional, hustlers, deceivers, crack pots or people of bad faith.

The Koch network may be changing its face and money flow, but it appears to be still just as powerful as ever.