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An Open Letter to Wall Street
Let's face it: the mess outside your office is your doing.
FBI Seizes Items at Home of Former Top Aide to Governor Walker
Madison, Wisconsin - About a dozen law enforcement officers, including FBI agents, raided the home of a former top aide to Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday as part of …
An Unending Crisis – America in the 21st Century
The “credibility” gap has spread from the presidency to the entire political system.
Dick Cheney, the Ultimate American Terrorist
Vice President Dick Cheney in a June 20, 2007 file photo. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) It is axiomatic by now: when someone leaves …
The Unacceptables
And so begins again the Herculean task of wrapping my poor, abused mind around yet another crop of Faustian caricatures.
America in Decline
Corporate power's ascendancy over politics and society both political parties far to the right of the population.
Breivik’s Fundamentalist War on Politics, and Ours
The tragic slayings in Norway raise anew serious questions about domestic terrorism and its roots in right-wing ideology and fundamentalist movements.
A President in Reverse
An interesting thing happens when someone backs up. They get smaller in your vision.
Epic Fail
It's become all too evident that a manufactured crisis has suddenly transformed into a very, very real one.