24 Oct, 2024
Republican Election Subversion
Republican Election Subversion by Susan J. Tracy 384 words In responding to Judge Tanya Chutkin’s early October unsealing of the...
24 Oct, 2024
23 Sep, 2024
Anti-Immigrant Agitation in a Nation of Immigrants
Anti-Immigrant Agitation in a Nation of Immigrants by Lawrence S. Wittner 958 words In recent days, Donald Trump and his...
18 Sep, 2024
Masters of Deception
Masters of Deception 11?74 words by Bob Topper No one likes a liar. Everyone knows lying is wrong. Even organized crime...
3 Jun, 2024
Broken Record
Broken Record by Tom H. Hastings 491 words In 2016, Donald Trump ran as an outsider, as someone who was...
27 Apr, 2023
State of Collapse?
State of Collapse? by Alan Kanner 824 words Perhaps more Americans can offer our own version of the State of...
3 Mar, 2023
Hype, hypocrisy, and lying to the people
Hype, hypocrisy, and lying to the people by Tom H. Hastings 712 words Hypocrisy in high places Most folks are...
9 Jan, 2023
The Squeaker of the House
Kevin McCarthy’s pursuit of power put him into quite a predicament. He was willing to give up anything in concessions to pick up votes, but those who opposed him simply did not trust him...
29 May, 2022
Welcome, children
Welcome, children, to the world we so-called adults are handing over to you—a planetary culture of lies and power...
23 Apr, 2022
Take the gloves off
Many of you have no doubt watched a video of Michigan state senator Mallory McMorrow’s forthright response to a far-right colleague’s attempt to paint her as a “groomer” for the LGBTQ community and a supporter of pedophilia.
28 Mar, 2022
McCarthyism v2.0
In 1954 one of the greatest frauds in US politics culminated in 36 days of televised hearings. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin had come to prominence by leading the campaign to expose communists in government...
19 Mar, 2022
Gas prices, propaganda, war, and politics
Gas prices, propaganda, war, and politics by Wim Laven 562 words I come from oil country, so does House Minority leader...
10 Feb, 2022
Talk Putin off the ledge
What if we could stop war? What if we could stop Russia from invading Ukraine? Because of one man, Vladimir Putin, and his personal desire to grow an empire, an estimated 50,000 people will die if he invades, tens of millions if it snaps the nuclear tripwire.
27 Oct, 2021
Laundered legacies
When Richard Nixon died, those of us on the antiwar side of the barricades during his misbegotten presidency were driven to new lows of cynical despair by the image-washing...
17 Oct, 2021
Is Trump’s violent dishonesty inexorable?
A year ago, when I examined the lessons of hatred and political violence in the US, I made note of the ugly role dehumanization and hate played in the alt-right’s support of Donald Trump.
7 Oct, 2021
The Thread of Truth
In my college days I was a conservative republican. I voted for Barry Goldwater, and Ronald Reagan. But I gave up on the party during the presidential election of 2008...