Congress Fights Over Childcare But Not the Military
Money invested in education, health care and green energy is an investment in the future. Money for war offers little or no return on investment except to weapons makers and Pentagon contractors
Money invested in education, health care and green energy is an investment in the future. Money for war offers little or no return on investment except to weapons makers and Pentagon contractors
The United States desperately needs a dose of its own medicine of democracy promotion.
If the Trump years resembled a professional wrestling match, the Biden years are looking like a baseball blooper reel.
Could a post-pandemic America face an even more infectious strain of Trumpism — call it T.2?
If we extrapolate from the current trend lines, democracy will be gone in a couple decades, melted away like the polar ice. But although down, democracy is not out.
By mislabeling the radical members of the Republican Party "conservative," the mainstream media gives them a veneer of respectability.
If Joe Biden is to be transformational, he will need to convince a cynical nation that government is worthy of the trust needed to meet the challenges ahead.
White guys on their trains to nowhere and their Republican cohorts are now determined to thwart any Biden administration effort to govern, says Larry Beck.
Americans have to be separated from the cherished notion that they are all good people at heart.
America’s way forward cannot depend on either the cooperation or the acquiescence of Republicans.
Are the Democrats about to purge the trouble-makers in their midst, who may well represent the majority of their voters?
Strom Thurmond’s old Senate seat currently occupied by Lindsey Graham could be seized by a black candidate accused of the dire sin of having too much money.
The most respectable news outlets now follow the logic of the entertainment industry and depend on politics resembling a circus.
