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Crimes of War
China’s Xinjiang province, the Saudi-led war in Yemen, the Myanmar (Burma) junta’s atrocities against the Muslim Rohingya, and of course Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Each of these episodes has its distinctive characteristics, but they all…
Reasons Rookies Lose Money at the Poker Tables
WANT TO BET-Sitting at the poker table is filled with so much fraught, especially for newbies. Having a strategy is what is most desirable…
About That $900 You Gave Pentagon Contractors
MILITARY TAX - Most of us want our tax dollars to be wisely used — especially around tax time.
The GOP Has Gone Bull-Goose Bonkers, Where Are the Democrats?
GUEST COMMENTARY - I think we can now say the obvious: The Republican Party has gone bull-goose bonkers.
The US Supreme Court Has a Very Serious Clarence Thomas Problem
SCOTUS - As I have written before, the U.S. Supreme Court is facing a crisis of legitimacy driven by a growing public perception that the c…
Move Over Weapons Makers, Facebooks Wants Its War Profits Too
SOCIAL MEDIA - It should come as no surprise that Facebook, alongside many big tech companies, opposes anti-monopoly regulatory efforts, ex…
What If Voting Became Mandatory in the United States?
OUR DEMOCRACY - Washington Post opinion columnist E.J. Dionne Jr. votes at Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Maryland.
Top 5 Worst Corporate Landlords (Corporate YIMBYs Win Honorable Mention)
RENT CONTROL - As corporate landlords keep setting sky-high prices in the rental housing market, tenants are getting slammed by unfair rent…
The Most Dangerous Class: Educated, Unemployed & Angry
CLASS OF DISCONTENTS - Twenty-first-century America may be dominated by oligarchic elites, but arguably the biggest threat to our economic…
Undermining Judge Jackson's SCOTUS Confirmation: The GOP, Islamophobia, and Guantanamo
SCOTUS - If she is confirmed by the Senate next week, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would arguably become the most accomplished Justice on th…
Facebook Hires GOP Firm Tied to 'Republican Political Machine'
POLITICS & SOCIAL MEDIA - The new revelation Wednesday that Facebook hired one of the largest Republican consulting firms in the United…
New Reality: The Biggest Cities Are Past Their Prime
URBAN WATCH - As the centers of media and political discourse, large cities, notably New York, have a unique ability to promote themselves…
Enough. It Is Time for Merrick Garland to Act on Trump's Coup Plot
DOJ WATCH - I know you've heard this before—that accountability is coming for Donald Trump and his cronies for triggering the Jan. 6th insu…
Top 10 Billionaires Could Pay $215 Billion Over Next Decade
NEW TAX CODE - Economic experts and progressives opposed to the outrageous levels of inequality in the United States celebrated Saturday ev…
The Fight to Tax the Super-Rich
WEALTH DISTRIBUTION - During four years of Donald Trump’s high-anxiety presidency, Republicans could at least point to one goal accomplishe…
Thinking About the Unthinkable
NUCLEAR WAR - I’ve been darkly amused by the large number of people I’ve seen and heard dismissing the possibility of nuclear World War III…
The Coming Bloodbath Of The Democrats
POLITICS 2022 - The depression-era comedian Will Rogers once famously said he did not belong to an organized political party because he was…
The Underlying Problem Isn't Inflation—It's Corporate Power and Greed
ECONOMY - Inflation! Inflation! Everyone’s talking about it, but ignoring one of its biggest causes: corporate concentration.
Texas' Bounty Hunter Abortion Ban Is a Dire Warning of the Future of Reproductive Rights
WOMEN’S RIGHTS - For more than six months, people in Texas have been unable to access abortion in the state beyond the earliest weeks of pr…
