Friday, September 11, 2026

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The most important idea of the presidential primary

Is it time for America to implement a robust wealth tax?

Clueless and shameless: Joe Biden, staggering frontrunner

Joe Biden just put a spotlight on his mindset when he explicitly refused to apologize for fondly recalling how the Senate “got...

Warren or Sanders

“It is important for progressives to address and answer this question for themselves, well before the primaries, so as not to squander their resources of time, finances and conviviality fighting among themselves during the important lead-up to the primary elections where they must be strategically united in order to win.”

9 things to know about Joe Biden

Former vice president is an instant front-runner with universal name recognition, extensive financial network.

Lots of presidential candidates talk a good talk. Look at their...

Voters need to demand candidates whose life trajectories and past actions make it clear that they have more to offer than politically convenient sound bites.

9 things to know about Elizabeth Warren

U.S. senator from Massachusetts enters Democratic presidential primary with money on her mind.

Buying a President for 30 Bucks and Change

While secretive super PACs are dishing out millions of dollars to back various presidential candidates, Bernie Sanders' campaign has raised its money from ordinary Americans. Isn't that the way democracy ought to be?

Is Donald Trump Really a ‘Fascist’?

Is Trump a real live fire-breathing fascist? The majority of citizens have no use for Trump and Trumpism because it isn't the solution to "make America great again."

Trump: For Republicans, Their Worst Nightmare

Donald Trump is the Republican party's worst nightmare. But they will have to sit back and watch as Trump takes over America’s political stage all while capturing a large share of the GOP base constituency.

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The California State Capitol in Sacramento, where SEIU Local 1000 has accused Governor Newsom's administration of bad-faith bargaining. Photo: Steven Pavlov, via Wikimedia Commons

California’s largest state worker union opens strike vote against Newsom administration

More than 100,000 workers will decide by October 7 after the state rejected most of the union's contract proposals.
The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Photo: U.S. Navy

25 Years of War Was the Wrong Response to 9/11

Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies tally the trillions spent and the millions killed in the quarter century of war that followed September 11.
ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations unit in Los Angeles, June 2025. Photo: DHS

American Gestapo: The Worst Takes Time But It Comes Around Fast

Barton Kunstler maps the largest ICE detention camps and the private contractors running them, and asks how far the buildup has to go before it counts as what it resembles.
The US Capitol, where Senator Bernie Sanders has convened a bipartisan briefing on AI risk for September 16. Photo: Martin Falbisoner, via Wikimedia Commons

Sanders brings AI risk researchers to a closed Senate briefing on AI danger

Geoffrey Hinton and two other AI risk researchers, but no tech executives, will address senators on September 16.
Satellite imagery of Lake Mead shows the reservoir's shrinking shoreline amid ongoing Southwest drought. Photo: NASA/METI/AIST/Japan Space Systems, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team, via Wikimedia Commons

US just had its hottest summer and hottest August on record, NOAA says

Drought now covers 59 percent of the country as the warmest year on record runs into fall.