If Trump sends the US military into states, it will ignite a peoples’ revolution
Can America and its Democracy withstand the attacks that are being made upon it from forces, not from without, but from within this country? What we desperately need, at this time, is a peoples’ revolution.
Ghost Dance: Five Facts about Our Vanished Nations
In his column, Thomas Magstadt lists a few facts about U.S. history from a new book about Indigenous people of the nation written from the perspective of non-Indigenous people. It's time we as a nation recognize our past wrongs so we can finally heal.
Discovering racism and then discovering it anew
Charlottesville was an awakening.
Climate-driven drought has risen 29% this century, will create 216 mn. refugees by 2050:...
“If global warming reaches 3 degrees Celsius by 2100, as has been predicted, drought losses could be five times higher than they are today, with the largest increase in drought losses projected in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic regions of Europe.”
His own worst enemy, Trump drowns in his own swamp
Thus does Trump bring down the very doom and gloom, if not carnage, on himself invoked by his own lies and fear-mongering.
Republican Candidates Defend Killing Civilians to Fight Terrorism — and so do Democrats
For a number of years now, prominent Democrats have also been advocating very dangerous ideas, with Democratic leaders also defending the large-scale killing of civilians in the name of "fighting terrorism."
Trump’s repeat “birthright citizenship” babble: Dead wrong on the facts, the law and amendments
Trump’s latest scam again pushes the envelope to find new ways for this loser to lose again.
The truth about the US border-industrial complex
Congress should expand legal avenues of immigration, along with a roadmap to citizenship for undocumented immigrants already here—a policy with broad public support.
How to get a health care system for people, not just for corporate profit
Sanders' proposal will cut the health care costs paid by typical working families from some $6,200 a year to $466.
The SOTU 2016: The Future is Friendly?
Not only has Obama progressed the democratic dialogue, but he has represented the hallmark of open democratic government and has clearly silhouetted his governing vision.