Eleanor LeCain discusses the race for President, the appeal of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, and having a government that responds to the people, with…
Donald Trump
Perhaps the story can begin with the way an "aide to [President] George W. Bush [apparently Karl Rove] spoke dismissively of "the reality-based community." Rove,…
Hillary Clinton is said to be buoyant over her prospects to become the next U.S. President, as Republicans feud over Donald Trump’s disruptive campaign and…
The Washington Post‘s Catherine Rampell devoted a column (12/24/15) to a popular Washington pastime: trying to get young people angry at their parents and grandparents…
In ways that immediately brought to mind dangerous parallels with the yellow Star of David patch worn by Jews during the Third Reich, Donald Trump in…
Cops Gone Wild; Justice Gives Deep Cover Developments in Chicago and South Carolina bring into sharp focus the national crisis of police killings of unarmed…
While LGBT evangelicals cheered on the SCOTUS decision on gay marriage, evangelical institutions lobbied for the passage of “religious freedom” laws that would allow them…
As Syrians gather in their capital Damascus to celebrate, there is a sense that the New Year will bring a measure of peace – the…
A few weeks before seminal climate change talks in Kyoto back in 1997, Mobil Oil took out a bluntly worded advertisement in the New York…
Every time I write about a book about Bernie Sanders, somebody sends me a better one. If this keeps up, by the time his campaign…
The idea that anthropocene — the human alteration of natural ecosystems — can be good or even great, as promised in the recently released Ecomodernist Manifesto, is purely delusional. Worse, it…
Terror, intimidation and violence are the glue that holds empire together. Aerial bombardment, drone and missile attacks, artillery and mortar strikes, targeted assassinations, massacres, the…