10 Oct, 2021
Two parties: Two countries
We have a two-party political system, one that evolves with time, people, and circumstance...
4 Oct, 2021
Improve democracy: Close the college
Conventional wisdom tells schoolchildren that the US was the first modern democracy, modeled to some degree after the Greek experiment from a couple thousand years ago...
17 Sep, 2021
Can we tell truth from buck-naked lies?
The US Capitol is about to be treated to a rally by Trump supporters, organized by a former Trump campaign official, in support of the deadly insurrection on 6 January 2021...
10 Sep, 2021
We are being out-evolved
I vividly recall reading Bill McKibben’s prophetic work, The End of Nature, serialized in The New Yorker beginning 11 September 1989..
31 Aug, 2021
You can help stop climate chaos: 25 ways
There is no serious doubt or debate: anthropogenic (human-effected) activities are driving more hurricanes than ever, more intense killer heat waves than ever in recorded meteorological history...
20 Aug, 2021
Explain it to me like I’m a two-year old
Imagine the Biden approach to leaving Afghanistan were done as if success and saving lives were the priority...
19 Aug, 2021
Look! Take an Afghander at that perennial FUBAR
I'm sure many of us older players recall where we were when the planes hit on 9.11.2001...
7 Jul, 2021
If at first you don’t secede
In these Not-So-United States, talk of secession is growing. It has always been a micro-undercurrent, but it is relatively common nowadays.
1 Jul, 2021
Supreme suppression
The Trump/McConnell-packed Supreme Court has begun to live up to the fondest hopes of fascist Republicans. They ruled that the voter suppression law passed in Arizona is Just Fine.
25 Jun, 2021
Let them suck Sikorskys, let them eat pork
The temperature in my historically cool and temperate city, Portland OR, is projected to be a historic 114 degrees today.
19 Jun, 2021
Juneteenth for white folk
After decades of educating us about the horrific history of Texas slaveowners refusing to let their illegally kept African-descended humans ...
22 May, 2021
Why riot? Toward a typology of social unrest
In Myanmar in early March of this year, people began to attack and vandalize more than two dozen businesses...
17 Feb, 2021
Profiles in pusillanimity
A very young John F. Kennedy, World War II skipper of the small stricken PT 109, showed selfless courage and dogged persistence...
24 Jan, 2021
Feeding two birds with one hand
As a new administration takes charge in the US, possibilities are opening. Many of our biggest...
11 Jan, 2021
Emergency response
Emergency response by Tom H. Hastings 834 words Published in: The Orange Leader, Nation of Change, LA Progressive, The Hastings...