Tag: politics
Ayatollah Trump: The global rise of the Christian right
Islamic extremism gets all the press, but Trump is just one of a growing number of Christian extremists in positions of political power.
Beyond the Green New Deal: Eco-socialism and decolonization
As the threat of climate change increasingly becomes the deadly reality, we cannot afford to leave survival to the right-wing or racist survivalists.
Flood of comments shows public ‘utterly repulsed’ by Trump plan to...
"The comments make it clear that most Americans not only oppose but are utterly repulsed by this plan to punish the poorest among us by denying them help to feed themselves."
At the Federal Election Commission, no watchdog for the watchdogs
“A thoughtful, constructive IG can improve the agency.”
‘Solitary confinement is torture:’ Ocasio-Cortez calls for Chelsea Manning’s release
"Chelsea is being tortured for whistleblowing, she should be released on bail, and we should ban extended solitary in the U.S."
Money talks, big time
Polls show that an overwhelming majority of Americans support stricter laws to prevent wealth from hijacking politics and want the Citizens United ruling overturned.
Trump hates farmers
He tweets odes to America's small farmers, but his actions are tearing them apart.
Trump’s remorse (on April 1)
If only this remorse was delivered from the forty-fifth President of the United States.
The 47-minute presidency
So bear with me here as I take us back almost four years to look once again at how it all began, at the way in which, after those 47 minutes, you could have turned off your TV, blocked out all those cable news talking heads, and never looked at the man again.
Pelosi and McConnell: Cranking up bipartisan madness for NATO
Only public education, activism, protests and a wide range of political organizing have the potential to disrupt and end the reflexive support for NATO in Washington.














