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This week saw a dramatic turn in our nation’s desperate efforts to clean up the increasingly poisonous online sewers that we call social media. ...
Republicans on the Supreme Court, 5 of the 6 appointed by presidents who lost the national vote, are the main reason why Americans can’t have nice...
The Republican attorney general of Texas sent armed police officers after Black voters in their eighties to intimidate, threaten, and destroy them...
Compassion for a learning-disabled child is dead on the right: all they have left is cruelty.
When President Biden was running for re-election, he repeatedly talked about the dangers Trump and his neofascist buddies in the billionaire class...
Twenty-two years ago, Nobel Prize–winning economist Paul Krugman wrote for The New York Times Magazine about the era in which he and I both grew up,...
Recently, a retired woman seeking advice wrote in to MarketWatch’s financial adviser, saying: “I was ‘financially set’ after my husband...
Get ready: Massive pools of dark right-wing money are soon going to clobber us. Will Democracy survive this onslaught by the morbidly rich? Democrats...
All across America families are in mourning: Their parents and grandparents, particularly the men in their lives, have been stolen from them by the...
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Tuesday blasted J.D. Vance for being a “grifter,” because Vance claimed he was some sort of a hillbilly who grew...
At a campaign stop in Ohio on Monday, J.D. Vance said that Kamala Harris shouldn’t lead America because she isn’t “grateful for it.” Vance...
Because the RNC failed three times to protect America from a dictatorial madman, that job now falls to us.
Marjorie Taylor Greene told Republicans at the RNC this week that Donald Trump “will make us wealthy.” What’s she really saying? And who is...
Will the media jump on the bandwagon and condemn Democrats and Biden for normal campaign rhetoric while continuing to normalize Trump's violent...
Article 3 of the Constitution, which defines the roles and powers of the court system, says: “The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts,...
Somebody should tell the New York Times and others that it is, in fact, their job to treat one candidate with pronounced alarm when the threat posed...
Watching and reading American media, a certain bias becomes immediately evident. Stories proliferate about pundits and a handful of Democrats calling...
We must not only resist, but prevail. If we do not, it will be nearly impossible to reverse the course that America’s right-wing billionaires have...
Now that the Supreme Court has made any president into a king who chooses to corruptly use the power granted him by six Republicans on the Supreme...
The six Republicans on this court have essentially declared that they and Trump are so far above the law that the entire concept this nation was...
With the leaked Idaho emergency abortion ruling yesterday, it appears the conservatives on the Supreme Court are trying to do the same thing they did...
She may never be the same. On May 19, three American citizens were hanging out at their apartment complex swimming pool. A mom and her two children, a...
As the middle class shrinks and poverty grows, the cash stash at the very top of the American economic pyramid grows exponentially.
Have you noticed how rarely Republicans talk about actual issues? They rant about brown people pouring over the Southern border but refuse to even...
Hitler’s brilliant propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, famously told the Fuhrer, “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.” Donald...
Get ready. The GOP is not backing down one inch on their war against women’s rights and bodily autonomy.
Elon Musk, the father of 11 children , thinks that declining population is a crisis and the world needs more babies—particularly those with his...
Trump and other Republican politicians are trying their best to revive their nonsensical horse-and-sparrow supply-side rationale so the rest of us can...
They’re at it again. And it’s not even original: The trickle-down economics that two dozen Republican governors and Donald Trump are reviving as...
The politically cancerous pattern of using racism for political gain and financial profit dates back to the earliest days of our republic, but now,...
It’s not too late to stop this madness, although that task is being made harder every day as gutless Republicans, a spineless national media, and...
In one of the great and thought-provoking comedy albums of all time, I Think We’re All Bozos on This Bus (1971), my dear old buddy Phil Proctor...
These plans are private health insurance provided by private corporations, who are then fully reimbursed by the Medicare trust fund regardless of how...
Donald Trump has overtly taken the side of dictators including Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Viktor Orbán, and Kim Jong Un over the past eight years,...
Odds are you’ve never heard of the “mudsill theory of labor,” but everybody in this country really should learn about it. It explains a whole...
I just finished watching the extraordinary Showtime series A Gentleman in Moscow , which takes place in the years and decades immediately after the...
The oligarchs are on the move, and they know who they want leading America. The Republican National Committee held an annual fundraiser at...
The H5N1 “bird flu” is ripping across America, decimating bird flocks and even infecting a few humans and other mammals. Should we be concerned?...
In the midst of all of his trials, in a moment pregnant with irony, Donald Trump recently claimed that if he was reelected he would seize direct...