The vilification of Zohran Mamdani– and why he’s right about Israel’s genocideIt says a lot about how corrupted U.S. politics have become that so many elected leaders, Republicans and Democrats, are more enraged about…Jun 28Jun 28
How a newfound love of quotas drove Trump’s Los Angeles military invasionThere’s a little discussed word behind the escalating Gestapo-style abductions and deportations of ordinary working people, many longtime…Jun 10Jun 10
The rendition of democracy is escalatingFor all the autocratic abuses that characterize Trump’s second tenure, nothing more parallels the historic pattern of dictatorships than…May 13May 13
Protests matter. We can all act to stop the coupOutrage is not enough. If there is one lesson the world has learned from the horrors of authoritarian rule, silence, consent, concession…Apr 18Apr 18
The long roots of Trump’s assault on public healthOf all the slash and burn terminations President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk are inflicting on public agencies, few will have a more…Apr 3Apr 3
Trump is still fighting the Civil War — on the wrong sideIt has been 160 years since the last shots were fired in the deadliest war in U.S. history, in which up to 750,000 Americans died in a…Mar 25Mar 25
The sordid ties of U.S. racism and German fascism — and where it leadsVice President J.D. Vance’s embrace of Germany’s neo-Nazi party in a high profile Munich visit this past week sparked outrage and alarm…Feb 17Feb 17
What Trump’s pardons and retribution say about the threat of fascismPresident Trump’s granting of freedom to nearly 1,600 January 6 insurrectionists, followed by other actions fulfilling what the New York…Jan 27Jan 27
What Trump’s Covid malfeasance warns us about the next epidemicsOne barely noticed pledge by Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign in a May Time magazine interview offers an especially ominous warning…Jan 11Jan 11
Elvis, the polio vaccine, and what’s at stake for all of usElvis Presley hardly seems a likely candidate for the pantheon of public health heroes. But in October 1956 the ascending rock idol lent…Jan 1Jan 1
