Tag: politics
Why America is the greatest country
I just know that everything is okay because I live in the greatest country. And America is the greatest country because everything is okay.
Twilight Zone Amerika: Woody Allen meets Rod Serling
The ‘Big Lie’ can only work when too many of us continue to lie to ourselves.
NY Attorney General resigns amid abuse allegations
"While these allegations are unrelated to my professional conduct or the operations of the office, they will effectively prevent me from leading the office’s work at this critical time."
Tip was right
Will voters awaken in California’s 49th? Will there be a wave of Democrats to replace the corrosively corrupt Republicans in a Congress stuck on stupid?
The caliphate of Trump
This particular cult did not come from nowhere, but from a land of growing extremity, a country that now, it seems, may be willing to preside over not just cities in ruin but a planet in ruin, too.
Fossil fuel interests ‘coached’ conservatives to reject climate science in US...
“I think it’s all about vested interests.”
The financial hardships of Trump’s friends
Trumponomics is a thin veneer of an excuse for giving America’s rich – already richer than ever – whatever they want, while sticking it to everyone else.
Sword of Damocles: Reviewing the 2018 AUMF
This legislation, especially the AUMF of 2002, hasn’t just tarnished the country’s reputation internationally and cost trillions of taxpayer dollars, but has directly caused the deaths of thousands of American soldiers.
Crisis in consciousness: Change and the individual
Remove the psychological clutter and Love will shine forth, bringing clarity and lasting change, within the individual and by extension society.
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Trump removal calls grow after Iran threat as Democrats debate 25th Amendment and impeachment...
Calls to remove President Donald Trump intensified after he warned that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” but constitutional requirements and political alignment within the executive branch make immediate removal highly unlikely.
How Iran won the Iran War
It is a pyrrhic victory in many ways, since Iran has new enemies among its neighbors and it has lost industrial capacity. But it is a victory of sorts.
The American Medical Association has an obligation it’s failing on.
Our government is killing people in cold blood, and the institutions meant to advocate for us remain silent even when it is their peers being forced into tanks, handcuffed, and locked away and tortured.
Trump budget expands domestic surveillance powers alongside record $1.5 trillion military request
New budget documents reveal expanded FBI authority to monitor domestic extremism while the White House seeks historic increases in Pentagon spending and significant cuts to social programs.
Exposing discredited ‘alpha male’ dominance myths driving the worst toxic MAGA Trump masculinity
The crackbrained, suicidal Make America Grim Again carnival impedes the next alpha male wannabee from crawling from the swampy ooze, bellowing toxic masculinity and gaining public office.