Sawant is wrong on Trump versus Clinton
The Bernie or Bust crowd misses the real differences between Clinton and Trump: On immigration, foreign policy and trade, Trump would be far worse.
Trump and the Republican elite: Two sides of a single coin
Trump's toxic stew - demagogic, divisive, brutish, misanthropic, incendiary and violent - struck a nerve among a section of the electorate and frightened others.
Behind Flint water horror, a corrosive cynicism
Republican Governor Rick Snyder's men have wreaked untold economic damage on the residents of Flint on top of the threat to their health.
Flint's water crisis and the GOP's class war
Why did Flint suffer a water catastrophe that now requires that children be treated as if they had been poisoned?
Republican victory in 2016 would strengthen new “patrimonial oligarchy”
The hateful and reactionary ideas of GOP candidates confront us with the danger we would face next November, were any one of them to be elected president.
Charleston, the Republican right, and the lessons of Martin Luther King
Few people are claiming that there was anything random or mysterious about the brutal murder of nine innocent African American people in Charleston.
The cost of war for families
In February of 2014, Senate Republicans blocked a $21 billion plan to build new VA clinics because they said it was too expensive.
Blocking right-wing power grab the priority in 2014 elections
Blocking the right-wing Republican power grab is the number one priority of all progressives in the Nov. 4, 2014 elections.
My father, Southern Baptists, and the battle for the soul of America
What happened with Southern Baptists and like-minded fundamentalists has occurred on a larger scale with American politics.
Who is to blame for the crisis at the VA?
U.S. Senate Republicans blocked legislation 11 weeks ago that would have expanded federal health care and education programs for veterans.
