"If there was ever a time in human history, in our country and throughout the world, that we have got to come together and create a world not based on greed but based on justice, based on decency, now...

In his confirmation hearing, Roberts told the Senate he would all only “balls and strikes, and not to pitch or bat.” He then proceeded to dismantle the Voting Rights Act.

“I have viewed disturbing video taken last week in the US Senate in which Senator Paul appears to be brain-dead,” Beshear said.

This cyclosporiasis outbreak is happening right as our ability to track the parasite has been gutted. Last year, the Trump administration made surveillance of cyclospora optional through FoodNet, a pa...

On July 16, the second day of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of Todd Blanche for U.S.

Why Americans are embracing policies they were taught to fear, while rejecting a stupid, oligarchic economic model that's failed us all (except the oligarchs)...

And the context for this one isn't promising.

The Trump administration’s white nationalist project was on full display this weekend at the 62nd Munich Security Conference that took place from February 13 to 15, 2026.

Hint: Everything but probable cause

Toward a better society and a better polity by government that truly derives its powers from the consent of the governed

The Illegitimate Ruling of the Roberts Court Continues to Vandalize American Democracy 16 Years Later

So many, so little time: A challenge for the Congress

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I published an article on September 24, 2023 amid the turmoil that led to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ouster just a few days later on October 3, 2023 – the first Speaker in U.S.

Last week’s roll call vote (285-98) in the House of Representatives on a Resolution (H.Con.Res.58) “denouncing the horrors of socialism” was performative politics, pure and simple.

It’s not the Constitution that is failing us

Alligator Alcatraz was not on anyone’s bingo card for 2025, but President Trump continues to surprise with his administration’s horrific…

Brigham and Women's researchers studied participants who took vitamin D3 pills daily for four years.

Updated 9/1/25

Trump’s America torches its farmers, raids its firefighters, abandons its allies, and still finds time for a Navy boat parade.

Most of us tend to think of socialism and capitalism as polar opposites – each antithetical to the other.

Today, for the second time in as many days, President Donald J.

We need candor from the bench and from the media

Friends,

At first (in 1787) it seemed pretty simple.

We should all be concerned about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and why it matters.

Friends,

In what may be the last chance to stop the war crimes being committed in Gaza, and grant a measure of decency to, and legal protections for, the people who live there, along with people in the West Ba...

At a press conference for Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in Los Angeles today, Noem’s security assaulted Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA), dragged him into the hallway, forced him to the floor,...

As we approach the Fourth of July, the anniversary of the founding of the “united States of America”, it is a good time to examine the language of our charter, the Declaration of Independence. To para...

On March 4 of this year, the U.S.

On March 4 of this year, the U.S.

Who said that, and why it matters today

After previously suggesting that the U.S.

How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.

The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.