24 Oct, 2021
Although critics of the Biden administration’s Build Back Better plan to increase funding for U.S. education, healthcare, and action against climate catastrophe say the United States can’t afford it, there are no such qualms about ramping up funding for the U.S. military...
21 Oct, 2021
A long time ago, Gordon Adams introduced the term “iron triangle” to characterize the interlocked relationship of the Pentagon’s military services, the corporations that contract with it to build weapons and provide services, and the Congressional committees that vote on military appropriations—in short...
We have a two-party political system, one that evolves with time, people, and circumstance...
23 Dec, 2020
"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez nailed it once again, tweeting her frustration and despair a few days ago..."
“A gush of corporate relief fills the airwaves as Super Tuesday becomes history. A progressive wave was not electorally visible...
“When Russ Feingold and John McCain reached agreement on legislation that helped reform the contamination of special interest money into...
“Unless I am in a particularly peaceful mood, I tend to scoff at the idea of building bridges between Democrats...
“While nonpartisan get-out-the-vote efforts are admirable and necessary for democracy as it is practiced in the United States, I am...
“Strangely, over a century, America’s two major political parties gradually reversed identities, like the magnetic poles of Planet Earth switching...
31 Aug, 2016
“Western civilization has entered the long-predicted Secular Age when the power of religion over society gradually recedes. Europe started” James...
