August 2022

Whatever Happened to the Public Option and the $35 Insulin Cap?

Only Fools Count on Capital to Stop Late Fascism

Biden’s Bifurcated Student Debt Cancelation Plan

ROTC Redux: A Bete Noire of the Anti-War Movement is Back in the News

My First Seventy Years as an Ex-Pat

Fake Neutrality: How Western Media Language Misrepresents Palestinians, Shields Israel

Why Black American Art Matters Right Now

The Sucker and the Citizen

“Getting Away with Murder”: Gov’t Mule as a Countercultural Model of Excellence

Australia, China and Fashioned Ignorance

End the Collective Punishment of Afghans

You Can’t Fix the Economy by Hurting People

Reflections of a Do-Gooder

Angels Music

Taming the Climate Impacts of Cattle and Sheep

Climate Change: Endless Words, Where’s the Action?

Defining “Disinformation”: Toward an Anti-Authoritarian Left

Letter From Crimea: The Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade

Why Do People Want to be Nazis?

Biden Pelosi Postmortem on Taiwan Trip

The Rise and Rise of Homo Tempus: An Interview with Richard Yonck

Karuk and Yurok Tribes Demand Immediate Action After Water Diverted from Shasta River

Acquiescence – Buying the Hype

Every Single Member of Congress Is Willing to Let Yemeni Children Die

Earth Day, 8 Walk Away with a Win

Songs of Expedience

Pro Golfers are Selling Out to a Murderous Regime

Community Schools Can Revitalize the Neighborhoods Around Them

How Nancy Pelosi Used “Feminism” to Play the “Isolationist” Right

The Plastics Paradox Facing Humanity

Five Unsung Films on the American Labor Movement

Lost Yet Connected in Time: Brown, Peltier, Melaku-Bello, Abu-Jamal, and Assange

Reviewing As They Made Us 

The Far-Right Crusade Against Human Sexuality

Duginist Propaganda in Turkey; How Russia-Turkey Are Both Friends and Competitors

We Can Do So Much More on Student Loan Forgiveness

We Don’t Need Government-Granted Patent Monopolies to Finance Drug Research

Timber Industry Puppets in Congress

Heavens and Earth

The Many Lives of Ayman al-Zawahiri

Time is Running Out to Upgrade US Immigration Policy

Yoga Versus Democracy?

More Young Americans are Using Cannabis and Hallucinogens. That’s Good News.

A First Step, But We Have to Do More on Student Debt

NPR Host and NYT Guest Stress that Russia is Communist While Vilifying Uninformed Republicans

The Progressive Industrial Complex and Our Fascist Future

Productivity Growth: What Happened to the Upturn?

The New Schism: Will the Idea of the ‘West’ Survive the Scourge of the Russia-Ukraine War?

The Stealth Plan to Privatize Medicare for All

A River of Shit Runs Through It