Is Our Failed Empire Heading for the Exit?
Could this country, which dumped trillions of taxpayer dollars into its forever wars, now perhaps be reclassified as a failing empire with a flailing military?
Social Security Versus National Security
Is the Social Security system finally in trouble? It could be, thanks to the third-rail political issue of military spending.
The American Century Ends Early
How the USS Enterprise was transformed into the USS Roach: Let’s face it, whether we fully grasp the fact or not, we now live in a system, as well as…
Donald Trump Knew Us Better Than We Knew Ourselves
Now that Trump's been defeated, count on one thing: he’ll take as much of this country with him as he can.
Reclaiming American Idealism
Why we could use a leader like George McGovern again
We’ve Been on Trump’s Road for a Long, Long Time
Beyond Our Control: The author's first book, about the mid-1970s, describes a moment eerily reminiscent of today's American reality.
American Carnage From a Pandemic President
Think of the U.S. as potentially the most powerful, wealthiest failed state on the planet.
Killing Democracy in America
This country’s 'forever wars' have become a kind of global pandemic all their own and, like a cytokine storm, are strangling the vital organs of democracy.
Time to Stop Bankrolling War and the Wealthy
A jubilee moment in pandemic America? The poetry of a movement to change this country.
Homelessness in the COVID-19 Era
Selective in Its impact, the virus has struck the homeless hard
The All-American Way: MLK’s Giant Triplets
Racism is a massive problem, but hardly our only one. As King sought to remind us, there are at least two others of comparable magnitude.
The War Zone Is America
The threat of armed violence shapes the major life decisions of so many people of color today.
The Invasion of America
We Americans, the greatest power in history, the ultimate unchallenged victors on this planet as the last century ended, are now living in a disease-ridden parody version of occupied Iraq…
A Breathless Moment in America
A man killed with his face pressed to the ground may yet shift the earth under our feet.
A Speech to the Class of 2020: You Didn’t Deserve This
How the roof fell in, a graduation speech for an age of collapse