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2019

11/12 When Political Parties Lose the Consent of the Governed: The Civil War and Donald Trump
11/7 A New Deal That’s Also Green
11/5 The Blues: Education for the Liberation of Black and Brown Girls
10/24 “How Ya Gonna Pay for Medicare for All?” Here’s How
10/22 The Psychological Base of “Powerarchy”
10/17 Democrats Took The Wrong Lessons from McGovern 1972
10/15 Cruelty Steers the New Supreme Court Docket
10/10 Impeachment: Restore Entitled “Centrist” Ds and Rs to Power?
10/8 A Real Solution To Refugee Crisis
10/3 “Conservatives” Not At All Conservative
09/30 Thom Hartmann: Hidden History of Supreme Court and the Betrayal of America
09/26 Trump and “Disloyal Jews”//The Corpse of Franco and Democracy in Spain
09/24 The DNA of Democracy: It’s A Recessive Gene
09/10 Trump and the ‘Gated Communities’ of Afghanistan
09/5 Not Just “Bread,” To Win Democrats Must Offer “Roses Too,” A Sense of Meaning
09/3 BoJo’s Brexit Helter Skelter
08/29 Climate Change Serves Oil and the Pentagon
08/27 Evangelicals Quit Nixon: Why Do They Stick With Trump?
08/15 Concentration Camps-Never Again!//Red Summer 100 Years Ago
08/13 Woodrow Wilson And Trump: Fanning the Flames of Hate
08/8 The New EuroFascism//Slavery Ended Had Brits Won 1776?
08/6 Fault Lines In the Constitution: Unseen Until Too Late?
08/1 Recreating a Democratic Economy: Our Founders Vision
07/25 “Go Home” Rhetoric is as American as Immigration Itself
07/23 Are Most Americans Unpatriotic?
07/18 Erasing Unsettling Truth: The San Francisco Mural Controversy
07/16 The Brave Freedom of Satire: Mad Magazine’s Crucial Legacy
07/9 Supreme Court Whittles Away Democracy
07/2 Reactions from Iran and Honduras: What Do You Expect?
06/27 Making The Democratic Party Democratic
06/25 21st Century Tech Trusts: 1984 on Steroids
06/18 Nixon Could Have Used a Mitch McConnell
06/13 An Optimistic/Realistic 21st Century Vision
06/11 Why Is Trump Provoking Iran?
06/4 New Anti-Abortion and Old Fugitive Slave Laws
05/30 Crackdown on Press Freedom Has Begun
05/28 DNA of Democracy: It’s a Recessive Gene
05/23 Marianne Williamson: Righteous Candidate
05/21 Boondoggle, Inc: Military Industrial Complex on Autopilot
05/16 The Criminalization of Humanitarianism
05/14 Kaiser Wilhelm and Donald Trump: Brothers from Another Mother
05/7 Is the Era of Centrist Establishment Democrats Over?
05/2 The Rise of History: Vital for Our Future
04/30 1919/2019: Echoes on Immigration and Race
04/25 WBCN And The American Revolution
04/23 Realistic Optimism for Actual Democracy
04/16 Assange: The Legal Bounds of Journalism
04/11 DCCC Fighting Against Democrats
04/9 Europe at Cliff’s Edge
04/4 Hamilton Against Democracy, Struggle Still Unresolved
04/2 Heartland Momentum for Medicare For All
03/28 Trump’s Redefining Citizenship Puts America In Danger
03/21 The Science of Both Racism and Social Change
03/19 Workplaces: More Danger Than Terrorist Attacks
03/7 Fueling The Backfire: Our Everywhere War on Terror
03/5 Liberal Justin Trudeau: In the Pocket of Big Oil?
02/28 We Are At War With China
02/26 The Decline of American Power: What’s Next?
02/21 Venezuela: Behind the Crafted Image
02/19 Unions on the Rise (Thanks Trump)/Stopping The Emergency Declaration
02/14 Cruelty As Policy
02/12 Beyond the 2020 Electoral Circus: Action
02/7 Nonviolent Refusal To Cooperate: The Irish Set The Standard
02/5 New Orleans at 300: Cultural Spectacle Vs. Ruling Racism
01/31 Democrats More Hawkish Than Trump?
01/29 Sparking Prosperity for Everyone
01/22 A Wall Won’t Work. A New Marshall Plan Just Might.
01/17 Angela Davis: Rising Star Again
01/15 Great American Populism for 2020 Wins
01/10 From History Vantage Point: When Did the GOP Move to the Dark Side?
01/8 How Trumpism Liberates Americans from Complex Realities

2018

12/21 Time to Move Democracy From the 18th Into 21st Century
12/20 France’s Yellow Vest Movement Explained
12/18 Democrats Took The Wrong Lessons From McGovern ’72
12/13 Obvious Migrant Solution//CNN Fires Professor
12/11 Populism Ain’t What It Used To Be
12/6 Cracking Down on Democracy//White, Rural, Republican
12/4 Worshiping Waste As Long as It’s Military Waste
11/29 Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective
11/27 Not Learning From History: Franco Not Dead Anymore//WWI Women
11/20 Midterms Reveal Dangerous Regional Divides
11/15 The Death of Democracy: The Weimar Republic. And America?
11/13 Redlining: Government Policy Makes Racism and Poverty Worse
11/8 Democracy in the US/ Peace in Afghanistan?
11/6 Why Is There the Caravan From Our Ally, Honduras?
11/1 Decolonizing And Democratizing Philanthropy
10/30 Grading for Equity: Teaching Humans, Not Rats
10/25 The Triumph of Frat Boys//Why Trump’s Lies Are Believed
10/23 Beating Stress and Anxiety in the Time of Trump
10/18 Conservative American Dream Has Been Flipped on Its Head
10/16 The First World War Armistice: Perspective at 100 Years
10/11 New Americans Energizing Democracy, Running for Office, Winning
10/9 Improbable History: Red Scare in VT and the GOP Urgency on Kavanaugh Explained
10/4 Yemen: An Accountability Free Zone
10/2 Universal Basic Income: An Old Idea Whose Time is Near
09/27 America’s Long Aversion to Truth
09/25 The Tango War: Key To Who Would Win WWII
09/20 High School Kids Leading Us All, Not Waiting to “Grow Up”
09/18 From Rhetorical to Full On Fascism
09/13 Bacevich: Our Fixation with Trump is Actually a Distraction
09/11 Pan-Africanism: Can Colonialism Be Overcome?
09/6 Chicago Plus 50: Positive Lessons for 2018
09/4 The Prison Strike: You’re Not Supposed to Know About It
08/30 Big Brother Much Bigger Than 1984
08/28 Must Truth Be Outside the Mainstream? Assange and Journalism
08/21 Using “Anti-Semitism” to Defeat Jeremy Corbyn
08/16 Israel’s New Nation-State Law: Codifying Apartheid
08/14 Freedom As Tested By 1968
08/9 Sky’s The Limit for Military Waste: $717 Billion ’19 Budget
08/7 Has the Time for NATO Passed?
08/2 America First Leaves America Out
07/26 Wither NATO? Trump’s Flight 93 Doctrine.
07/24 One Nation Indivisible? No. Eleven Distinct Nations.
07/19 Socialism/New Deal: It Saved Competitive Capitalism Then. Can it Now?
07/17 The UK’s Brexit Shambles
07/12 Evangelicals Had Been Pro-Choice and the NRA Was All About Gun Safety. Really.
07/11 Report from Violent Nicaragua: The Truth Behind the Picture
06/28 50,000 Kids Behind Bars// “Infest” and “Civility:” The Danger Lurking
06/26 Left and Right Against Dumb Wars//Indian Kids Taken for Decades
06/21 Free Speech Not OK in War? The Lessons of Debs and LaFollette June 1918
06/19 Erasing Net Neutrality, Crushing American Freedom
06/14 Meanness and Hatred Can’t Be Blamed on Trump: It’s Always Been There
06/12 Trump Weaponizing the Courts Without Our Consent
06/7 Fighting Voter Suppression
05/31 Regime Change: It Never, Ever Works
05/29 For Democrats, Centrism Is Not Pragmatism
05/24 Democrats Wrestling With Messaging for This Year’s Elections
05/22 Progressive Populist Potential in Texas. Yes, Texas
05/17 Screwnomics: The Economy Minus Earth and Women
05/15 A Scientist Runs for Congress. What, Facts Matter?
05/10 Out of the Closet to Be Policed?
05/8 Our Need to Connect is Tearing Us Apart
05/3 May Day: As American as Apple Pie
05/1 Who Is Trump’s Buddy Emmanuel Macron?
04/26 Bobby Kennedy’s Delta Epiphany
04/24 Little Armenia Leads the World In Stopping Authoritarianism
04/17 Tax Day 2018: Billionaires Thank Us!
04/12 International Hero Bill Richardson and International Threat Trump
04/10 Millions of Jobs Are Disappearing. The Answer? $12,000 for Everyone?!
04/3 Trump’s Massive Corruption Troubles//April4’68 Plus 50: Action, not Dreams
03/29 Saudi Power in Washington: Harming America in the Middle East
03/27 Peace Coming to Korea? It Could Happen!
03/22 States Crack Down On Dissent
03/20 Immigrants More Likely to Be Law Abiding Than Americans as a Whole
03/6 Russia/Trump Scandal Stands in the Way of Preventing a Big War
03/1 For Our Common Empowerment, Let’s Learn What Works
02/27 Teens As Targets. Parkland and Kent State: Real Change Coming?
02/20 The Many American Wars No One Notices
02/15 America First Means China First//Trump’s “Infrastructure Plan” a Gift to Polluters
02/13 Grit Is Not Enough: Structural Barriers Remain To High School Kids
02/6 Today’s Wars: Still Trying to Win Vietnam
02/1 Sowing Chaos: Good Strategy?
01/30 Welcome to the Pro-Democracy Movement
01/25 Heartland Dems to Washington: You’re Killing Us!
01/23 Breaking the Cycle of Cynicism: It Can Be Fun
01/18 Trump Was Set Up By Putin
01/16 Weapons Industry on AutoPilot Under Trump
01/11 16 Year Old Girl Takes on Israeli Military
01/9 Cuba 2018: Neither Heaven Nor Hell
01/2 Disobedience: Democracy Depends on It

2017

12/28 Democrats: A Party in Need of Reboot
12/26 The Real Pre-Christian Meaning of Christmas
12/24 Christmas/Hanukkah: Strength Through Generosity Not Domination
12/19 Bringing Democracy into the 21st Century
12/14 The New Danger of Trump and Jerusalem
12/12 28th Amendment to Restore Democracy? Vietnam Being Fought Again
12/7 Shaping the Future of Work After Trump
12/5 The Widening Gulf Between Judaism and Israel
11/30 Bernie Sanders: Not Just Rebuilding; Re-imagining Puerto Rico
11/28 400 Wealthy Americans: Don’t Cut Our Taxes
11/21 Teenage And Muslim in America
11/15 No Mercy: Long Term Effects of the Subjugation of the South after the War
11/9 The “Alt-Right” and Zionism//Kurd and Catalan Future?
11/6 ’67 March on the Pentagon Plus 50
11/2 November 2, 1917: The Beginning of the End for Palestine
10/27 Breaking Wall St’s Grip on Democratic Party
10/26 A Step Not Taken: FDR’s Four Freedoms and Real National Security
10/24 Business and Public Education = Segrenomics
10/19 Big Pharma And The Mahdis Who Kill Americans
10/17 Colonel Wilkerson: “We Are Supporting the Most Dangerous Group in the World”
10/12 Antifa: Fascist “AntiFascist” Gangs
10/10 Spanish King Undermines Himself// Getting Serious about Kids and Addiction
10/5 The Tradition of Government Spying On Us
09/28 Crushing Democracy In Spain
09/26 PBS Vietnam Series: False Balance; Resorting to Old Familiar Stereotypes
09/19 2018 Chances for Democrats//Carpe Diem Politics
09/14 The Opioid Crisis: Blaming the Victims When Greed is the Problem
09/12 North Korea: Peace Is Possible//Revival of Karl Marx
09/7 Daughter Killed in ’95 OK City Bombing Now Fights to End Death Penalty
09/5 The Decline of America’s Power: How Did We Get Here, How Rough a Landing?
09/1 What is the World Bank Doing?/Self-Blame In Economic Difficulty
08/30 The Place for Change: New Governors
08/17 What America’s Left/Populists Have Won
08/15 Use of Fear For Political Gain: Nixon Started It in 1948
08/10 Free Speech Threatened By Anti-BDS Bill
08/8 Has All America Become Kansas? Chances for Democrats in 2018
08/3 An Actual Coup in America: Democrats in 1944
08/1 Our Closest Allies Hurt Most By New Anti-Russia Sanctions
07/27 Sinclair News Sneaking In//Right Wing Men and Sex
07/25 Worse Than The First NAFTA//How Progressives Can Win in the South
07/20 The “Civil War” Re-Examined: It Set Back Civil Rights
07/18 Redefining “Smart” in the Smart Machine Age
07/13 America Better Off Broken Apart?
07/11 BDS at 12: The Fight Against it Shows It’s Working
07/6 Is the Democratic Party Determined to Keep Losing?
06/29 America’s Founders on “Independence” Today
06/27 US Pilots As Bait in War With Syria
06/22 A New Consideration of Uses of LSD
06/20 Juneteenth and the Racial Wealth Divide
06/15 The Right Took Over the Republican Party; Liberals Can Learn from Them//A War The West Can’t Win
06/13 Truth as an Effective Political Weapon: Corbyn//Use Public Money to Fund Public Projects
06/8 More Than Just Hacking; We’ve Become Like The Soviets
06/6 Kill It To Save It
06/1 Yippies, Satire, and Fake News: Paul Krassner Today
05/30 Truth is the Beliefs of the Strong: Trump and 1984
05/28 Memorial Day 2017/A Hundred Years On
05/25 Prisons Don’t Work; How To Do Better
05/22 American Guns Mean Mexican Slaughter
05/18 Is Trump a Threat to National Security//What is Net Neutrality?
05/16 Military Worship Threatens Our Democracy
05/11 On the Ground in Yemen: Famine Approaches
05/9 LePen Lost But Is Far From Defeat
05/4 Tax Policy: the 1% and Racism//Trump a War Criminal Already?
05/2 The Clintons and Obama Started Trump’s War on Immigrants
04/27 While We’re Not Paying Attention; Remaking State Governments
04/25 The Real Story of North Korea: It’s Complicated
04/20 Better Than Bombs: Freedom from Want
04/18 The Top 1% Want Us to Hate Taxes
04/13 Trump Bombs Syria: Now What?
04/11 Has Populist Wave Crested?//World War One Never Ended
04/6 MLK’s 4/67 AntiWar Speech Kicked off Today’s Split Among Liberals
04/4 WWI: America Made a Huge Mistake April 6 100 Years Ago. We are Still Paying.
04/4 Why Direct Action Works
03/30 The Threat of Reading//The Danger of Gorsuch
03/28 Black Bloc Weather?
03/24 Intelligent Disobedience: Democracy Depends on It
03/10 For-Profit Colleges Maintain Economic Inequality
03/9 Why To Not Give Up on the Democratic Party
03/8 Out of Disaster A Liberal Renaissance in the 1920s: House of Truth
03/4 When They Killed Berta Caceres A Year Ago, She Multiplied
02/28 Crushing The Power of Truth? Peter VanBuren and Nick Turse
02/27 Army Strategist: Misuse of American Power and the Chaos It Caused
02/21 GOP Carbon Tax: A Hedge Against Risk
02/16 The Revolution Before the War of Independence
02/13 No Lack of Warnings of American Fascism Yet Here We Are!
02/9 A Typhoon of Terror: American Blacks After “Freedom”
02/7 Malice or Mere Incompetence? Trump vs Dodd-Frank
02/2 Trump Disrupting Disorder: The End of the 20th Century At Last
01/31 Eleanor and Hick: New Deal Legacy
01/26 Nuclear Power: Safe and Green?
01/19 Revolution Where You Live: Solutions from the Bottom Up
01/17 Time to Defend the Republic Against The Government
01/10 Traitors or Prophets: Americans Who Fought A War Against WWI
01/5 Take Action To Stop Trump’s Fascism

2016

12/22 The Pagan Basis of What We Call Christmas Today
12/20 Tillerson Portends Great Instability: Environment and Between Nations
12/15 Right and Left Solution to Trumpism: Municipalization
12/13 Christmas: We Celebrate War Over and Over, But Peace Only Once
12/8 12/7 Plus 75: US Policy and Politics Transformed
12/6 The Invisible People Halt Big Black Snake
12/1 “Right to Work” a Disguised Assault on Freedom
11/30 Obama: Exonerate Ethel Rosenberg
11/22 Scandinavia Got it Right, So Can We
11/17 One Nation? Never Was.
11/15 Saving Our Cities: Transforming Urban America
11/10 Bernie’s TV Ad Creator: Reviving the Democratic Party From the Ashes
11/3 If She Wins, Get Ready to Push
11/1 Days Before 11/8: Profound Weakness in the Republican Party
10/27 Turning Streets into Powerful Art and Action
10/25 Yemen and Mosul: Arabic for Quicksand?
10/20 The Danger of Trump Increases After Nov 8th
10/18 Harm to Kids from Authoritarian Schools
10/13 Political Disarray: Not the GOP, Spain
10/11 Who’s Serving Who: The Power of the National Security State
10/6 “Humanitarian Intervention:” A New Cover Story
10/4 Born On Third Base
09/29 Same Sex Marriage: Making it Better For All?
09/27 Kurdish Women Beat ISIS
09/22 Time to Move Beyond Caging People?
09/20 Israel: Nationalism Replaces Religion
09/15 Fall 80 Years Ago: Young Americans Went to Spain to Fight Fascists
09/6 Populism: Where To Now?
09/1 Labor Day 2016: Taking Power
08/30 Time to Ditch The Saudis?//Clinton Foundation: Smoke But No Fire? Really?
08/25 Under and Over 70: The Israel Divide
08/24 KDA in the news – Washington Post Article – Inside the exclusive events helping to fund Clinton and the Democratic Party
08/24 Army Ranger Opposing Child Soldier Recruitment in America
08/18 Hillary for Amendment vs Citizens United//The GOP After Trump?
08/16 DNC Platform on War: Not Hopeless
08/11 A Tough Vote Forward
08/9 Serfs on a Debt Plantation//Palestine at the Democratic Convention
08/4 After The Turkish Coup Attempt: Yikes!
08/2 Democracy at the Democratic Convention?
07/21 Hillary Clinton and Honduras Coup 2009
07/19 Smashing the Glass Ceiling: Those Who Went Before
07/14 What Could Have Been: RFK, The Making of a Liberal Icon
07/7 NH Candidate//The Lawsuit vs the DNC: Democracy Alive?
07/5 Would Our Founders Recognize Today’s “Independence?”
06/30 Disruption of Establishment Politics: The Meaning of Brexit
06/28 Spatialized Blackness In Chicago
06/14 Turning Streets Into Art and Action
06/9 Pity the Poor Petro Nations//Fixing Medicare
06/7 Does the US Really Want War with Russia?
06/2 Whistle Blower: Beware
05/31 No Space For Black Girls To Heal
05/26 The North and Southern Values Both Won
05/24 An Ethical Toolkit for Educators: It Matters to Us All
05/19 The Coming Democratic Crack Up
05/17 The War Left Out of Your History Books
05/12 Nuit Debout: Say What?//Clinton Erodes Habeas Corpus
05/10 Democracy Endangered in Israel
05/5 New Democrats Their Own Worst Enemy
05/3 Republican Senate Candidate Takes On Establishment
04/28 Philanthrocapitalism: Charity as a False Front
04/26 Teens as Adults?//Cholera Cover-Up!
04/21 How Did We Get To Be Incarceration Nation?
04/19 Making Saudis Share the Neighborhood
04/14 The Panama Papers: Big Silver Lining
04/11 The Civil War: An Unnecessary Failure?
04/7 The Supreme Court Guarantees Economic Unfairness
04/5 Exonerate Ethel: Save Our Democracy
03/31 Trump Obssession Misses the Real Race
03/24 How Our Military Weakens American Security
03/22 Obama in Cuba and Argentina: How Much of a Change//The Anti-AIPAC March and Rally
03/17 The Future of Work: We Can Make It better
03/15 Is Obama a Black Leader?
03/3 Pink Flower Beats USA//Integrating Immigrants
03/1 Brexit=More Democracy for Europe?
02/25 Hillary Never Said She is For Peace
02/23 Foreign Policy/Defense Analyst: Bernie is the Foreign Policy Realist of 2016
02/18 This Populist Moment
02/11 The NH Primary From Media Optic
02/11 Burt Cohen on CSPAN -Senator Bernie Sanders’ Campaign in New Hampshire
02/9 Cowboy Socialism?
02/4 Unprecedented: Democratic Party War on Bernie Sanders
02/2 Norway’s Democratic Socialism Yields Great Freedom
01/28 Democracy, Chocolate, Hammocks: Italian Style Imperialism
01/21 The Death of Critical Thinking: Thank Republicans
01/19 Undocumented Young Americans: Lives in Limbo
01/14 A New New Deal: How Possible?
01/12 Money, weapons, silence: US and Saudis vs Iran
01/5 One Day of Peace, 364 of Perpetual War

2015

12/22 Why Rich Arab States Won’t Fight Our War Against ISIS
12/17 Time to Free Pam Smart. Here’s Why
12/15 Can Democracy Emerge Against the Tyranny of the Troika?
12/10 The Lasting Effects of Trumpism
12/8 Billionaire Bonanza: Forbes 400 and the Rest of Us
12/3 December 7, 1941: Transformation of American Policy and Politics
12/1 The Disturbing Reality Behind Turkey and the Russian Jet
11/24 A War The West Can’t Win/Ending TV Ads for Drugs
11/19 Killing As Many Civilians as Possible:WWI and ISIS
11/17 Beginning of the End for Super PACs?
11/12 Harm to Kids from Authoritarian Control
11/10 Fighting Police Terror/TPP Revealed: Destroying Democracy
11/5 Government Terrorism Against Asian, Muslim Americans
11/3 Torture and Drones: Democracy Broken
10/27 The Many Accomplishments of America’s Left/Populist Tradition
10/22 The Arab Spring: What Went So Wrong?
10/22 The Arab Spring: What Went So Wrong?
10/22 The Arab Spring: What Went So Wrong?
10/20 Kissinger’s Shadow: Lives and Democracy Itself Destroyed?
10/15 Turkey and ISIS, Syria and Russia Explained
10/13 Pinochet: Terrorist Attack In Washington
10/8 Racial Inequality Actually Thrives in Good Schools
10/6 Sanders and Corbyn: A Gathering Wave?
09/30 Railroaded: How We Got To Modern Corporate America
09/29 Stability Coming to Syria and Iraq
09/23 American Exceptionalism? The Religion of Nationalism
09/22 Hillary’s Anti-Democracy Foreign Policy
09/16 The Dumbing Down is Working
09/15 The Revolution Before the War of Independence
09/10 The Migrant Crisis: Historic Transformation?
09/8 The Right Is Quite Wrong About Founders
09/3 Mass Incarceration or Justice Reinvestment?
09/1 Police Violence: The Startling Economic Context
08/27 The Real Troublemaker in the Middle East: Saudi Arabia
08/20 Was A Free Press Shot Down With That Ukraine Jet?
08/18 Gaza: One Year After
08/13 Economic Democracy: Working In Cincinnati
08/11 States to Feds re/Weed: Bug Off
08/6 Without This Ingredient, No Peace in Israel/Palestine
08/4 Orthodox Rabbi: “Zionists Bring Danger Upon Jews”
07/22 How Teddy R Set Up Pearl Harbor 110 Years Ago This Summer
07/21 The CIA and the Church Committee/Another Approach for Electing Bernie?
07/16 GMOs vs Democracy/Iran Deal: Bigger than Nixon’s China?
07/14 Intelligent Disobedience: Democracy Depends on It
07/9 Bernie’s Social Democracy is 100% Traditional American
07/7 Democracy Reborn in its Birthplace: Greece
07/2 Doug Hughes – If l Is Speech, How About a Gyrocopter?
06/30 Our Rights Today: They Nailed It in 1789
06/25 Violent Racism Not the Fault of Confederate Flag
06/20 Enough Exceptionalism Already!
06/18 A New Tool for Peace in the long Pro vs Anti-Choice Wars
06/16 Yesterday’s Battles Today
06/11 The Tradition of American Democratic Socialism: 2016 Win?
06/8 Making the Internet What It Was Supposed to Be
06/4 Goodbye Iraq, Now What?/Pressure on Obama for Transparency
06/2 Same Sex Marriage May Strengthen Marriage
05/28 Bernie Is What We Need
05/28 Ending Government Spying or Just C.Y.A.?
05/26 Remembering Bill Clinton’s Shift to the Right
05/21 What You’re Not Supposed to Know About Ukraine
05/19 Pretending Won’t Make Vietnam Go Away
05/15 Should Governments Get Away With Murder?
05/12 Public Schools: A Threat or Help To Democracy?
05/7 Destroying Democracy: 21st Century Republicans Goal
05/5 They Don’t Want The Truth Out: Kent State and Vietnam
04/23 US Helping ISIS Grow
04/21 New Powerful Populism
04/16 Billionaires Thank You for Paying Their Taxes
04/14 Strange Convergence: Lynching’s Link
04/9 African Lives Didn’t Matter/Same Old Neo-Cons at it Again
04/7 Afghanistan: Now It’s Our Vietnam
04/2 The TPP – Sky of Democracy Really is Falling
03/31 Our First Amendment: How Secure?
03/29 Cruz is the Ideal Candidate
03/26 More On Danny Schechter
03/26 Netanyahu + Republicans = A Big War?
03/24 Congress of Vienna – Is This Still 1815?
03/24 Danny Schechter: Carrying On
03/19 The Republican Budget Can Hurt You: What We Can Do
03/17 Why and How We Should Legalize Psychedelics
03/12 1915-2015 Learn From WWI?
03/10 Why Has the Truth About Vietnam Been Buried?
03/6 Extremists? The 20th Century Birch Society is the 21st Century Republican Party
03/3 A New Approach to Policy on Aging
02/26 American Jews Face Israel Reality
02/24 Democracy Can Succeed on Climate Change
02/19 Greatest Movies of 2014. Not the Oscars.
02/17 Social Security: It Works And Should Be Expanded
02/12 Can Liz Warren Be Convinced to Run in ’16?
02/9 Is Europe Going The Way Of Yugoslavia?
02/5 How The American Coup of ’44 Created the Cold War
02/4 Populism: Stronger Than Parties
02/3 The Origins of Modern Policing
01/29 Democracy Actually Can Triumph
01/22 Something New Under the Political Sun: Podemos in Spain
01/20 Think the Civil War Ended Slavery? Think Again.
01/15 Not All Poor People Are Black; Essays from a Thriving 77 Year Old Black Woman
01/13 Russia’s Economy in Tatters: Why This is Not Good
01/8 Teaching Controversial Issues In Classrooms: Evidence and Ethics
01/6 America’s Battle for Media Democracy: We Can Get Back the Airwaves

2014

12/18 Christmas: We Celebrate War Over and Over, But Peace Only Once
12/16 Quinks Invade! A New Way to Boost Young Kids’ Interest in Science
12/11 Ben Cohen (of Ben and Jerry’s) Launches Stamp Stampede: Money Out of Politics
12/9 To The Village Square! New Book on the 40 Year Anti-Nuclear Movement
12/4 Bernie Sanders Talks About His Economic Agenda/Dissecting the Ferguson Grand Jury
12/2 50 Year Pentagon Commemoration of the Vietnam War: Whitewash Not History
11/24 The Democrats’ Political Suicide
11/20 Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better
11/18 Is Now the Time for a Move to the Left?
11/13 Iraq War 3.0: What Could Possibly Go Right?
11/11 Veterans Day 2014: How to Best Serve Vets?
11/6 20/20 Hindsight: The 2014 Election
11/3 The Intent of America’s Founders Examined
10/30 Examining “American Exceptionalism”
10/23 FBI Seeking More Power to Spy on Us All
10/21 Free Speech For Everyone Except Those Critical of Israel?
10/16 ISIS: We Can Stop Them, But What We’re Doing Now Won’t Work
10/6 21st Century Secession: Maybe Not So Crazy
10/2 Hillary Loves Henry Kissinger: Who Is Henry Kissinger?
09/30 Banned Books Week: What Are They Afraid Of?
09/25 The Surprising Power of Millennials/Marijuana Laws: Also Big on November 4th
09/23 Books Still Subversive/Cuomo’s Close Call Proves No Inevitability
09/18 Episcopal Minister Fired for Speaking the Truth about Israel
09/16 Scotland: Yes Or No?
09/11 A Self Respecting Jew Takes on Israel
09/9 New Hampshire Connects With West Africa
09/3 Time to Look Seriously At LSD?
09/2 ISIS: A Realistic Policy to Stop Them
08/28 The Legacy of Bill Clinton: Real Economic Damage
08/26 Can Rand Paul Do it? Mix Libertarianism With Conservatism?
08/21 What Interests are Fighting Cannabis Legalization?
08/19 The Militarisation of America’s Police? Serve and Protect or Assault?
08/12 Rabbi: Israel is Murdering Judaism
08/6 What Has the American Left Accomplished?
08/5 Still Missed: Who or What Killed Paul Wellstone
08/4 World War One Never Ended
07/8 What We Think We Know About Communism and Capitalism is Wrong
07/1 A Left Wing Populism May Be Closer Than You Think
07/1 Would Our Founders Recognize Today’s Independence?
06/26 America’s Third Era: The Post-Constitution Era
06/24 Trimming the Corrupting Influence of Money in Politics
06/19 Iraq Crumbles: Was It Better Off Before Bush? What Now?
06/17 Martin Luther Plus 500 Years: 21st Century Right Wing Euro-Populism
06/12 Orthodox Rabbi: “Zionists Bring Danger Upon Jews”
06/10 The Tolerance Trap: How It is Sabotaging Gay Equality
06/3 We’re Being Fed Lies About Ukraine: Eric Zuesse
05/29 Is Hillary Inevitable? How Strong a Candidate, Really?
05/27 New Realities in Old French West Africa
05/22 Republican Former Congressman Pans NSA Spying
05/20 60 Years Since Brown vs Board Of Education: How Far Have We Come?
05/15 Money and Sex: 1) What Can be Done about Wealth Inequality, 2)Fundamentalist Men Obsession with Sex
05/13 The US Could Have Won in Afghanistan in 2002
05/6 Andrew Hemingway and Ted Wright: Two NH Republicans With A Lot to Say
04/29 Cowboys And Indians Come Together Against Keystone XL
04/24 Is Google The New Medieval Church?
04/22 Making the Internet What It Was Supposed to Be
04/15 Who Thinks About Prisoners? The 2014 ALBA Human Rights Award
04/10 The Attack on Public Education: Fear and Learning in America
04/8 McCutcheon: Another Blow to Democracy
04/3 History Rhymes: America 1848-1877
04/1 The Boycott Is Working/Bernie Sanders on a 2016 Run for President
03/27 The Wealth Gap and Democracy
03/25 Exxon Valdez: What Have We Learned in 25 Years?
03/20 Evidence a New Populism is Working
03/18 Why is the TransPacific Partnership Secret?/How Are Drones Affecting National Security?
03/13 Bernie Sanders for President: Realistic or Not?
03/11 Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison During the Vietnam War
03/6 Ukraine Realities Examined
03/4 The Progressive Movie Awards for 2014
02/20 Killer Heroin: The Drug War Failed, So What Can We Do?
02/18 After 73 Years of Prohibition, an Overnight Shift Toward Legal Cannabis
02/13 Philanthrocapitalism: Charity That Perpetuates Inequity
02/11 Fighting Back Against Mass Surveillance
02/6 Restoring Opportunity: The Challenge for American Education
02/4 Chomsky Critiqued
01/30 Israel from An Insider’s Perspective: Is The Dream Over?
01/28 2014: Echoes of 1914?
01/23 Charter Schools: Privatization of Public Schools?
01/16 Hedrick Smith, Author of Who Stole the American Dream
01/7 Time to Make the Fed a Public Utility?

2013

12/19 The Real Meaning of What is Today Called Christmas
12/17 Democracy in Honduras?
12/12 The ACA, “Obamacare.” Beyond the Politics: What is it Really?
12/5 US Women in WWI//Damn the Cracks, Relicense the Seabrook Nuke?
12/3 The Status of Freedom of the Press
11/26 The Civil Rights Struggle Before The Civil Rights Struggle
11/22 What is the World Bank Doing?/Self-Blame in this Recesssion
11/19 Prosecutor Bugliosi: Oswald Alone/Miss Anne in 1920s Harlem
11/18 Portsmouth’s Historic Red Light District//Childhood Chronic Health Conditions Week
11/12 1) The Warren Commission at 50: Cover-up or Mere Incompetence? 2)The Koch Brothers War on Women: Why?
11/7 The Diem Coup After 50 Years
10/29 Raised by Birch Society Parents, Author Knows the Danger of the Far Right
10/24 Your Rights And the New Supreme Court Docket
10/22 Psycho-Political Changes Happening//Defeating the Tea Party-Confederates
10/17 Reclaiming Our Democracy: Don’t Give Up!
10/15 The Hillary Steamroller: Right Tool for the Job?
10/10 The White Man’s Last Tantrum?
10/8 Architects Of the Shutdown Labeled “Anarchists.” But What is Anarchism, Really?
10/3 A New Approach to Education. Something’s Got to Change.
10/1 Movement Toward Overturning Citizens United
09/26 Net Neutrality:Internet Future At Stake/What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership
09/24 RIP: The Middle Class 1946-2013
09/19 Teaching the Constitution/Occupy: Two Years After
09/17 The Phony Budget Crisis
09/10 Congressman Pete King: Why He’s Running for President/Ten Weirdest Right Wing Christian Conspiracy Theories
09/3 Syria: The Legal Case, and The View From Syrians in Beirut
08/29 Prison Reform From One Who’s Been There/Why The White House Can’t Get Beyond the NSA Story
08/27 The Other Speech. The One That Got MLK Killed.
08/22 It is a False History that Props Up the Right
08/20 Blood Drenched Egypt/The State of the Police State
08/15 Options for Afghanistan From an Afghani Leader
08/13 Women, Work, And Wages in NH: Still Unequal
08/8 NSA: The Obama Spin is A Lie
08/1 Restoring Neighborhoods and A Sense of the Commons
07/30 Right And Left vs the NSA: A New Political Dynamic is Born
07/25 Davids Can Beat Goliaths: This Guy Tells How
07/23 Portrait of Edward Snowden/The New Movie “Copperhead”
07/18 US Tax Dollars Funding Our Own Enemy in Afghanistan
07/16 The Global Power Oligarchy Knows Better Than You
07/11 Northern Pass: Who Owns NH’s Energy Future?
07/9 Gettysburg Plus 150: Not Glory, The Truth
07/2 Why Would Ecuador Welcome Snowden?
06/25 Worldwide Revolts Have a Common Theme And Can’t Be Stopped
06/18 While You Weren’t Watching, the Right Doubles Down on the War on Women
06/13 How Patriotic Americans Can Support Brave Truth Tellers and Whistleblowers
06/11 How We Can Determine Our Own Better Economic Future: Public Banks
06/7 The Need for Enterpreneurial Diplomacy/Capitalism and Food
06/4 Radically Out of Step With America’s Founders: the Tea Party
05/30 United We Dream: Young Undocumenteds Winning Changes/Extrajudicial Killings of Americans!
05/28 Military Takeover of Law Enforcement: It’s Happened. Really.
05/23 Guatemala: Justice Denied?
05/21 From Occupation to Worker Ownership: The Republic Windows Story
05/16 Potentialism: Neither Capitalism Nor Socialism. A bit of Maslow, Jung, and More.
05/14 Report From Psychedelic Science 2013 Conference
05/7 Obama Missing Opportunities in Mexico/The Edge of Imperialism
05/2 Despite Losing in the 19th, The South Won Much in the 20th Century
04/25 The Struggle to Repeal Citizens United and Restore Democracy. Not At All Easy.
04/23 New Report on Torture: What If We Don’t Learn?
04/16 Tax Day Came and Went. Was it Good For You?
04/11 Good Food and Social Activism: The Story of the White Dog Cafe
04/9 Take Power Over The Public Economy with Public Banks
04/2 Robeson, Guthrie, and Seeger: Legacies of the Cultural Front
03/28 Public Ownership of Public Utilities On the Rise/Marriage Equality and the Supremes
03/26 Survey Says: The Rich Have Different Priorites, And Tend to Get Their Way
03/19 Opportunities in The Faith Communities: Iraq and The New Pope
03/14 Facing the Truth About Kent State and Vietnam
03/12 The Klan of the 1960s: What Was It and Where Is It Now?
03/5 Senator Bernie Sanders Leads on Climate Legislation/Taking on AIPAC
02/21 Hollywood Movie Awards: Not Those Guys, The Progies!
02/19 “Fix The Debt:” The 99% Sacrifice, While the 1% Romp
02/12 Henry A Wallace: One of Our Greatest Americans. Who?
02/7 Forward On Climate Rally/Obama and Extrajudicial Killing
02/5 Guatemala’s Former Dictator Goes On Trial for Genocide. In Guatemala!
01/31 The IMF and Europe/ Blacks and Obama
01/29 The Increase in Elderly Homeless Women
01/24 A New War: This Time It’s Mali
01/17 A Surprising History of the Second Amendment and the NRA
01/15 Organic Farmers Take On Monsanto in Court
01/8 Healing Begun 150 Years After Largest Mass Execution in US
01/3 13 Ways To Change the Food System in 2013

2012

12/25 The Real, Pre-Christian, Meaning of Christmas
12/20 The Cliff is Bogus: Let’s Focus on Full Employment
12/18 Newtown Monologue/Six Prong Solution for Economy
12/13 To Solve The Fiscal Cliff, Obama Should Channel FDR
12/11 Sequestration: What It Should Mean for the Defense Budget
11/29 Lincoln: Great Movie. It is Fiction. Here’s the Truth.
11/20 Jewish Voice for Peace on This Year’s Gaza War
11/15 Legal MJ in Colorado and Washington/ Constitutional Rights Under Obama?
11/13 Calls for Secession Multiply. Left and Right: Might it be What We Need?
11/8 Crawling From The Wreckage: What Next for Republicans?
11/1 The Mighty Israeli Army Threatened by a Pop Song
10/30 The NH View From One Week Out
10/25 Head of NEA on Education in the Election/Plutocracy Roaring Toward Us
10/23 Two Great Dead Guys Interviewed
10/18 The Politics of Voter Suppression
10/16 What’s At Stake In New Hampshire
10/11 Guernica Plus 75: What We Must Learn
10/9 America’s Chernobyl: It’s in Navajo Country
10/4 Parental Paradigm Shift: No Wonder the Right is Afraid
10/2 Slow Democracy: Is Real Democracy Possible?
09/25 What if American Foreign Policy Addressed Freedom From Want?
09/20 How Antietam Transforms A Conventional War Into Total War
09/18 Hurtling Toward Election: Obama Getting a Backbone, Republicans Panicking?
09/13 Consciousness and Ethics
09/11 Mark Green: Democrats Finding Backbone!
08/30 The Breathtaking Dishonesty of the Republican Convention
08/28 How Privacy In America Went Virtually Extinct in Just A Decade
08/23 Latin America Moving Left and Forward
08/7 Bread and Roses, Too: Less Work, More Jobs, and a Stronger Economy
07/31 Republicans Unleash Multi-Pronged Attack on Health and Envrionment
07/26 Sex, No. Guns, Yes. The Right’s Values.
07/24 What is No Labels, Really?
07/17 NH Candidates for Governor: Hassan and Kennedy
07/12 The South Won
07/10 Time For a Financial Transactions Tax?
07/5 The Lost History of 1914
07/3 Honduras and The US: 3 Years Later, and The Supreme Court ACA ruling: Danger for the Democrats?
06/28 Who is Frank Guinta?
06/26 Jackie Cilley Interviewed
06/14 World Focuses on Greek Election
06/12 Fosters.com – Former state Sen. Burt Cohen encourages Baby Boomers get tested for hep C
06/12 Revolution in Quebec?
06/7 The Beginning of the End of Marijuana Prohibition?
06/5 Why is the Government Witholding Documents on the JFK Assassination? What Does It Mean for Obama’s Open Government?
05/31 Is Obama’s Attack on Bain Good For America?
05/29 Is a Catholic Spring In The Air?
05/24 The Inherent Strength of Conservatives Is Available to Progressives
05/22 Oil Wars Bubbling Up?
05/15 Fukushima: Is The Worst Yet To Come?
05/10 99 to 1: What We Can Do About It
05/8 The French Election: What Does It Mean?
05/3 Vatican Aims to Muzzle American Nuns But They Don’t Surrender.
04/24 States Rights and Nuclear Power
04/19 Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Drone!
04/17 Who Owns The Future of Water?
04/12 The Crusades Are Back: Islamophobia
04/10 Navajo Water Rights Under Siege by Kyl and McCain
04/3 Chomsky and McGovern: Two of the Greats Interviewed
03/29 US Chooses Stability Over Democracy In Egypt: Gets Neither
03/27 60s Pop Art: Roots of the Political Revolution
03/22 How The Right’s “Values” Are Destroying American Values
03/20 New Exhibit: New Deal Art–Why It Is Relevant
03/13 The US and Pakistan: What is the Reality?
03/1 60 Years Too Late: The Truth About the Rosenbergs
02/28 Santorum: Choice Champion 2012?
02/21 The Unfolding Tragedy That Is Greece
02/14 What’s All This Noise About War on Iran?
02/9 A SuperPAC for The 99%
02/2 Taking On Monsanto’s Massive Political Muscle
01/31 One Nation Indivisible? No. Try Eleven.
01/26 Why The Right Hates Hollywood: The 2012 Progressive Movie Awards
01/24 The Madness that is the 2012 NH House
01/19 A Look Inside Occupy Congress
01/17 A Different Time, A Different Man: NH’s John Sullvan
01/12 NH Primary: What It Means, What’s Next
01/10 Navajo Nation Power Vs. Coal and Uranium

2011

12/22 Christmas and Hanukkah Both Challenge Injustice
12/20 Taking on Washington Corruption: Buddy Roemer
12/13 Democrats Go After Religious Voters in ’12 Election
12/2 North Dakota Takes On The Big Banks and Wins
11/29 The Militarization of America’s Police
11/22 Democracy? In the USA? Yes, Ending Corporate Personhood.
11/15 Occupy the School of the Americas
11/3 The SuperCommittee: What To Expect
11/1 Is OWS Shifting the Center Back to the Center?
10/27 Agent Orange at 50
10/25 9 Years Later: Questions in the Death of Paul Wellstone
10/18 Feminism Now
10/14 Young People In Wall Street or On Wall Street: Look to Parenting
10/12 New History Book on What America’s Left Has Accomplished
10/6 How Occupy Wall St. is Consistent with American History
10/4 The Best Among Us: Chris Hedges on Occupy Wall Street
09/27 Whistleblowers Protect the Public. Who’s Protecting the Whistleblowers?
09/21 UN Vote On Palestine: Pros and Cons
09/15 Crossroads for Nuclear Power Now?
09/13 Ten Years After 9/11: The State of Our Freedoms
09/6 Liberals and Ron Paul. Really?
09/1 Perry: More Than The Usual Pandering to the Religious Right
08/30 New MLK Memorial: The Man Was Not The Myth
08/23 Tea Party Dances on FDR’s Grave; He Lives Yet
08/18 Is George Wallace Reincarnated into The Koch Brothers?
07/28 Railroaded: How We Got to Modern Corporate America
07/26 Debt Ceiling Debate Unnecessary: Galbraith
07/23 The Necessity of Confronting the Powert of the Financial Industry
07/14 Cause of the Recession is The Way Out/What’s With All The Drone Wars?
07/12 America’s Civil War: An Avoidable Failure
07/7 Would Our Founders Recognize Today’s Independence?
07/5 US and Israel vs. the Gaza Flotilla
07/1 Centrality of Sexuality for the Populist Right
06/29 A Phony Withdrawal from Afghanistan?
06/21 Greece Crisis Examined/The Edge of Imperialism: Uncontacted Tribes
06/14 World Leaders Call for End to Drug War
06/7 Time to Arrest Henry Kissinger?
06/5 “Patriot Act” Extended: Assault on Liberties Continues
06/3 Election Fraud: Much More Real Than You Think
05/24 Are Americans A Broken People?
05/19 Young, Jewish, and Proud: Identity and the Israel Problem
05/5 What is American Exceptionalism?
05/4 150 Years After Sumter: The Price of Victory?
05/3 Our Founders’ Common Sense: Tools for Today
04/21 New Threats to Academic Freedom
04/12 Whose Country Is it? Unresolved in 1787 and 2011
04/7 How Good a Fit: Tea Party in the GOP?
04/5 Polls Say Much About Rightward March
03/30 Republicans Unraveling Civil War Consensus
03/24 Corporate Tax Dodgers=Traitors. What We Can Do
03/22 Owsley is Gone. A New Future for LSD?
03/17 Nuclear Power After Fukushima?
03/16 Why Target Banks? It’s Where the Money Is.
03/16 Why Target Banks? It’s Where the Money Is.
03/11 Female Sexuality: Terror to Republicans
03/8 The Obama Budget: Hope?
02/24 Move Over Oscars, It’s The Progies
02/22 Is This Egypt? No, It’s Wisconsin.
02/16 Towns Can Beat Corporate Raids: New Tool
02/8 Reagan at 100: As President, He Was A Very Good Actor
02/4 Ending Corporate Personhood//Will Health Care Reform Stand?
02/1 Energized Assault on Labor in NH
01/27 Socialism for Wall Street Only
01/26 It’s A Comcastrophe!
01/20 (Some) Wealthy Speak Out: Tax Us More!
01/18 Violent Talk: Are Both Sides to Blame?
01/11 Aghans for Peace Show the Way
01/7 1) Why Beliefs Trump Facts 2) Gary Hart on The Commons

2010

12/21 WikiLeaks: Dangerous Backlash
12/15 After Empire, Is A Soft Landing Possible?
12/9 With the National Glue Coming Undone, What Next?
12/7 Chris Hedges: Death of the Liberal Class
12/2 Interview With Rock Legend Graham Parker
12/2 Not If, But When Marijuana Will Be Legal
11/30 Leading From The Left: Bob Borosage on Deficits and Jobs
11/23 Political Cartoonist/Author Ted Rall Calls for Revolution
11/18 Domestic Spying Reborn on the Internet
11/11 The Fed Prints Another $600b. What Does That Mean For Us?
11/9 Rabbi Lerner/Robert Creamer: Moving Rightward Gets Us Nowhere
11/4 After the Massacre: Now What?
10/21 The Importance of California’s Prop 19
10/19 Defense Budget and The Deficit: Adapting to the Needs of the 21st Century
10/8 Electric Power to the People
10/5 You Thought You Knew The Tea Party?
09/30 Economic Effects of the “Pledge To America”
09/28 Cracking Down On Dissent: 21st Century Police State
09/22 To Be Or Not To Be Populist
09/16 Tea Party Wins Bode Well For November: Robert Creamer
09/9 Daughter Killed in OK City Bombing: Stop Death Penalty
09/7 Hot Hot Hot: One Week Before The Primary
09/2 The Hidden, Yet Very Real Power of State Terror
08/26 Funding Public Services Is The Best Economic Development
08/25 You’re Eating GMOs. What, Nobody Told You?
08/18 Net Neutrality Protects Freedom. Why is the Tea Party Against it?
08/12 A ’60s Original; Paul Krassner
08/10 CA’s Anti-Gay Marriage Prop 8 Overturned: Wide Ramifications
07/20 $54 Billion Of Your Money for Nuclear Power?
07/14 Dems Giving Up On Unemployment?
07/8 Pols are Wrong: Americans Want More Spending, Not Less
07/6 Honduras Update: One Year Later
07/1 Oliver Stone’s “South of the Border”
06/29 As Dukakis Sees It
06/16 Wall St. Reform: Might We the People Actually Win?
06/9 Witness to the Israeli Attack on The Marmara
06/7 New Perspective on An Old Case: The Rosenbergs
06/1 Alberta Tar Sands: Nuts Beyond Belief
05/20 Tribalism Can Never Be Defeated
05/18 Psychedelics: A Useful Tool Whose Time Has Come?
05/11 The Truth About Kent State Begins to Come Out
05/6 Oil in the Gulf: The Realities and Options
05/5 Kent State Plus 40
04/22 Wall Street Terms Defined, and Why It Matters
04/20 Hamid Karzai vs. Peter Galbraith: the US Loses
04/15 What Now for the US Supreme Court?
04/14 Can We Rein in Wall St?/Why No Talk of a New New Deal?
04/6 Opium in Afghanistan/Agent Orange in Vietnam
03/30 Holy Week 2010: Church in Crisis
03/25 Texas School Board Sets National Standard/ Bob Creamer on How The HCR Passage Changes Everything
03/23 The Bill Is Signed! Republicans Keep Digging Their Hole.
03/18 Apartheid in Israel?
03/16 Jews Say No: Power of Israel Over US Policy Waning?
03/11 Rage On The Right: How Dangerous?
03/11 Hillary Clinton in Latin America: Back to the Cold War
03/2 Teddy Roosevelt And Japan Gave Us Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Cruise
02/9 Obama: Nuclear Power Pusher?
02/4 Forget the Oscars; Here Come the Progies
02/2 Economist James K Galbraith on Deficits, Obama, and Keynes
01/28 Transitioning Our Towns for the Future
01/26 Yemen: This Looks Familiar
01/24 Immigration Reform and a Stronger Economy
01/15 FDR’s Call for Economic Rights Today

2009

12/29 Physicians For National Health Stand Against Senate Plan
12/22 We Want FDR Now!
12/17 Quebec Solidaire: New Independence Takes Shape
12/16 Cash for Caulkers Examined
12/8 Glass-Steagall Repeal: Reason for the Financial Meltdown?
12/3 Why Does The Right Own Populism?
12/1 Honduran Election: Democracy or Whitewash of a Coup?
11/24 Republican Governors Upbeat/Is The Trigger Better Than Nothing?
11/17 A Billion Here, A Billion There: Jobs Those Military Dollars Aren’t Buying
11/17 What The Stupak Amendment Really Means For Women’s Choice
11/10 Better Than War: Marshall Plan for Afghans
11/5 Deficit Spending: A Good Investment
11/3 Jodie Evans on Women of Afghanistan
10/21 Civil War in the GOP/The Politics of Public Option
10/16 Is Fox Not News But A Political Movement?
10/6 Author Jane Smiley on Economists
09/29 Civil Disobedience: Mightier Than the Sword
09/29 Obama the Impotent?
09/22 The Very Rich: Tax Us More
09/17 Time to let Texas Go?
09/15 Joe Wilson: Poster Child for the New Republican Party
09/14 The Firing of Van Jones
09/1 “Pro-Life” In a Tailspin?
09/1 Water As Precedent for Future Resource Struggles
08/3 Has America Begun to Move Away From Militarism?
07/31 CIA and Torture: Abu Ghriab as Tradition
07/31 Who is Working for Whom?
07/30 Blue Dogs and Blue Blood
07/21 State Single Payer?/ The Hopscotch Terrorists
07/15 The Clean Energy Act: A Step Forward?/CA TV Bans Tax-Marijuana Ad
07/9 Finance Industry Benefits Most from New Energy Bill/ Neo-Cons Love Ahmadinijad
07/7 Time to Rethink the Institution of Marriage?
06/18 Is Smaller Better in the World Economy? Try Devolution.
06/11 Emerging Movement in American Evangelism
06/9 How Pres. Clinton and the Democrats Worsened the West Bank and Chances for Peace
06/4 Democrats Dither on Gitmo?/New Start in El Salvador with FMLN’s Funes
06/2 19th Century Beliefs Meet 21st Century Realities
05/28 i3rd World Economy and $108 Billion for IMF/Unfettered Capitalism and Food
05/26 Is it Possible to Win in Afghanistan?
05/20 Cops Call for End to Drug War
05/14 Carbon Tax: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?
05/13 Fear of Equal Marriage
04/23 The Story Behind the Tea Parties
04/16 Socialists Out and Proud
04/7 National Lawyers Guild Reports on Gaza
03/31 Afghani Veterans on Obama Plan
03/26 TMI 30 years later: Nuclear Power in the US and France
03/19 The Death of Adam Smith and Resurrection of Karl Marx?
03/16 Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking Our Common Inheritance
03/11 Jews Against Zionism
03/11 Something Good from this Depression?
03/10 EuroSocialism Invades America!!
03/6 Lincoln at 200: savior or Tyrant?
03/5 Ethnic Cleansing in Israel?