Berrigan’s Witness to Nonviolence Challenged Church and Nation
Jesuit Fr. Daniel Berrigan will be remembered for challenging the conscience of the Catholic church and the nation on the dangers of militarism.
Court: Bush administration officials can’t be held liable for post-9/11 mass roundup of Muslims
There doesn’t appear to be a way to hold high-level officials accountable for these types of actions.
Trump’s lament: ‘And now, the end is near, and so I face the final...
It’s even more evidence that America badly needs a president who can keep his head on straight.
Trump hides behind the storm
As Hurricane Harvey raged, the president tried to use the disaster as cover. It may have worked.
How corporate welfare hurts you
You often hear Trump and Republicans in Congress railing against so-called “welfare programs” – by which they mean programs that provide health...
NBC’s Presidential Forum Continued the Shameful Corporate Coverage of the Great American Meltdown
It was a low, wretched performance, by the network and both candidates, full of fluff and posturing and Alice in Wonderland statements of policy along with an almost complete derogation of authority by the anchors.
The Fraud of the New ‘Family-Friendly’ Work
The new family-friendly policies seem ideally timed, but they apply only to a tiny group considered “talent”—highly educated and in high demand— to help to recruit and keep them. Let's not celebrate this new era just yet.
Trump Buddies Up to Putin
Imagine what Republicans would say if a Democrat had invited the Russian president to interfere in a U.S. election.
Addressing redeemable Trumpers: Offsetting the Blarney, upping midterm pressure
The electoral field, thanks to history’s most vulnerable president, is wide open – handing the left a great opportunity for a stunning harvest.
Trump dead-ends the perfect rightwing storm: his nomination augurs party, cult and personal train...
Trump’s most notable, if disruptive, historic feat: single-handedly demolishing one of two national parties running U.S. politics for 175 years.