Trump Sentenced by NY Court After SCOTUS Denies Effort to Block Court Hearing
Justice Juan Merchan spared Trump of jail time or fines, but rather handed him a sentence of “unconditional discharge.”
Cenk Uygur and Michael Tracey Debate Trump’s Perceived Threat to Democracy
By Michael Tracey / System Update
Speaker Johnson: Supporting Israel Is One of America’s ‘Founding Principles’
By Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) described US support for Israel as one of America’s “founding principles” during a speech at an event hosted by the…
Never Forget That Donald Trump Snookered His Own Voters To Pass Ukraine Funding
By Michael Tracey / Substack The day before the New Hampshire Primary this year, Donald Trump Jr. haughtily assured an assembled crowd that with his father back in charge, no…
Shooting Alone
America’s Social Priorities Shaped by Decades of War
House Dems Save ‘MAGA Mike’ Johnson From Marjorie Taylor Greene Ouster
"The GOP chaos caucus continues to do nothing for the American people and instead waste time infighting," said Rep. Pramila Jayapal, who did not support saving the far-right leader.
Michael Tracey: America First, or Ukraine First?
By Max Jones and Diego Ramos / ScheerPost Staff Writers This week, the U.S. government passed a foreign “aid” package of $95 billion for America’s wars, including $60 billion for…
Chris Hedges: The Donald Trump Problem
Donald Trump is not being targeted for the misdemeanors and serious felonies he appears to have committed but for discrediting and undermining the entrenched power of the ruling duopoly.
Mark Fiore: Sending Migrants Around the Country: Cruelty Travel
DeSantis' latest stunt sheds light on the treatment of migrants by the country's top politicians.
Mark Fiore: Dems Funding MAGA: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Democratic PACs and campaigns have been lending their financial support to far-right MAGA candidates. In the unpredictable era of Trumpist politics, this seems like a huge gamble to me.
The President Gets an “F” in American History
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost For 35 years I taught high school classes in politics, economics and American history. And for 35 years I struggled against a mythological…
Chris Hedges: Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy.
The Most Recent Development in Fossil-Fuelized Fascism
Big trucks, aggressively driven, straddle the borderline between a democracy in crisis and a country (and world) facing a climate emergency of the first order.
The Nasty Voices in Our Heads
The Paranoid Nature of American Foreign and Domestic Policy.