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Forty-three years into America's Reaganomics experiment, homelessness has gone from a problem to a crisis.
Back in 1967, a friend of mine and I hitchhiked from East Lansing, Michigan, to San Francisco to spend the summer in Haight-Ashbury. One ride dropped...
Want to die young? Immerse yourself in conservative media, and vote Republican. Seriously. We should have known, but, still, the science is shocking:...
Boeing, instead of building new airplanes to expand and upgrade their fleet, spent over $60 billion on stock buybacks in the years leading up to the...
Congressman Jim Jordan wanted revenge on behalf of Donald Trump against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for bringing the election interference...
On Wednesday, Maine’s legislature passed a bill joining a compact to commit all of their electoral votes, regardless of who won in their individual...
Donald Trump and his MAGA movement check every single box in the fascism playbook. We all have a role to play in making sure they are not allowed to...
Anti-abortion activists want to use the Comstock Act to ban all abortions in the nation, and most birth control pills and devices as a bonus.
Today there are families all across the country who are mourning the loss of their loved ones to climate-change-fueled floods, heatstroke, and violent...
The plaintiff in Snyder v United States is claiming that when a public official accepts a “gift” from a person or corporation who has benefited...
Republicans refer to it alternatively as a Ponzi scheme, a con, or as socialism. They want to destroy it. They admit it but then hope you forget....
Using arcane laws and loopholes, Republican-affiliated groups are challenging the right to vote of thousands of mostly Democratic voters across the...
This is one of the most naked partisan power grabs in the court’s history, particularly given that the future makeup of the court itself hangs on...
Trump Republicans are committed to abandoning America’s historic embrace of democracy.
The higher wages and increased innovation that derive from a high corporate tax rate all benefit the company, the workers, and the communities where...
The simple reality is that the future of American democracy is as much on the line in the case against Trump as it was in 1866. That was completely...
The GOP’s bet is that if they can keep things broken and bad enough long enough, then people will demand a dictator “who can get things done.”
Fascism can happen here and we know this because it is happening here. And unless more people wake up and fight back, it will be too late.
So, Donald Trump won Iowa. A crazed billionaire who wants to “suspend the Constitution” and claims the right to a murder his political enemies. It...
Please name one country, anywhere in the world, any time in the last 7000 years, where libertarianism has succeeded and produced general peace and...
This year’s election will not only decide whether we’re going to let Trump or a similar Republican end American democracy; it will also, if enough...
Bullying has now become the trademark behavior of the GOP, the result of Donald Trump’s entrance on the scene in 2015 when he successfully bullied...
Why don’t Americans know who’s manipulating our political system and why?
As Nikki Haley well knows, the Confederacy rose up not simply to preserve slavery and the Southern oligarchy, but to extend that oligarchy to the rest...
Americans who believe in democracy and reject strongman oligarchy must turn out next November in overwhelming numbers and so shatter the GOP that the...
If we don't get it together, people, things are about to get ugly. Very ugly.
Time to wake up, people. It's no longer just a dream—but a nightmare one step closer to happening.
For voters to make intelligent decisions about candidates, they must be well-informed. Sadly, that is very much not what is happening today in...
We can't let those opposed to a livable future win the battle now being waged over where our energy comes from.
Tomorrow’s hearing will be behind closed doors, and, if mainstream media’s historic reluctance to highlight the GOP’s hatred of Social Security...
There are few Americans alive today who remember Hitler, and for most of us the details of his rise to power are lost to the mists of time. But Donald...
What baffles me is why a TV news personality who earns $2.9 million a year would go to such lengths to avoid even mentioning a solution that’s been...
They think it will discourage voters by amplifying American cynicism, making it easier for them to take over.
“Thirty years ago,” Damon Linker told The Guardian, “if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in...
Oligarchy is corrosive. It destroys trust and confidence in government. It breeds cynicism and discontent. If not challenged, it will swallow us...
The three core pillars that hold up democratic republics are a vibrant and free press, trustworthy electoral systems, and academic independence, which...
"Thirty years ago," Damon Linker told The Guardian, "if I told you that a bunch of billionaires and intellectuals on the right are waiting in the...
We’re on the edge of the open enrollment period for Medicare, and the Advantage scammers will be carpet-bombing America with advertisements over the...
It's time to raise some serious hell if we want to protect Social Security, Medicare, and the planet itself from these corrupt right-wing jurists.
America gives a lot of lip service to the American Dream, but we haven’t led the world in meeting human needs since the Reagan Revolution.
We can’t afford to let these lies go down the memory hole, like we have the other wars we were lied into.
Many of the current Justices behave like they think they’re royalty, between lifetime appointments and the unwillingness or inability of Congress to...