The 2020 Battle Lines Are Drawn—It’s Time for Action
More than ever before, progressives can’t afford to be on the sidelines and let science-denying narcissistic fools run the show.
This Long-Standing Battle Between Armenia and Azerbaijan Has Nothing to Do With Us
America doesn’t really have a dog in this fight. Unless it decides it does – which it’s apt to do, especially in this madcap moment.
In a Time of Mortal Crisis, Rabbi Michael Lerner Prophesies a Caring Society
The lifelong progressive talks about his new book and what he found lacking in Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign.
COVID-19 Lays Bare the Reality of ‘Small Government’ Conservatism
With 200,000 dead, Americans are concluding that a more Rooseveltian response was in order.
Will the 2020 Election Be Decided in the Streets?
As November approaches, beware the white mobs, militias, and posses that are desperate to establish their own brand of justice.
Letter from LA: To Rehabilitate Prisoners, Rehabilitate Jails
The author spent years on a commission designed to improve outcomes for LA Countys 17,000 prisoners but found roadblocks purposely placed in every direction.
The Top 5 Most Horrible Things Trump Said in the Presidential Debate
The true horror lay in what the president had to say about the actual policy issues that were brought up in the first presidential debate of 2020.
Just In Case You Missed It
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Tax Revelations and Corporate Media Won’t Defeat Trump
Reporting on the president's taxes might give the impression he is finally on the verge of political downfall. Don’t believe it for a moment.
Discredited Russian Bounty Story Exposes Media’s Role in Status Quo
The military says they can't find evidence to support it, yet the New York Times and others have not repudiated the reports or issued corrections.
Patriotic History is Fake History
Feel-good stories and the series of platitudes studied in elementary and secondary textbooks is no way to teach the young.
Out with the Old
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Trump’s Syria Mission Is His Most Absurd Military Decision Yet
While in scale and scope the mission is comparably modest, it's perhaps most illustrative of how a generation of off-the-rails hyper-interventionism “ends.”
The Opioids Crisis During the Covid Pandemic
What people do in the face of protracted isolation and despair is turn to whatever coping strategy they’ve got.