Politics should be about issues of governance and issues of policy. But it’s not. It hasn’t been for a while. In the years when Ronald Reagan was breaking the law, trading arms with Iran for Read More …
It’s election year 2020 and people still debate details of the 2016 election. The debate is over. Establishment Republicans were behind Republican Donald Trump. But nobody has put it all together until now. Here goes Read More …
Glenn Greenwald breaks from lifelong activist Noam Chomsky on a very basic issue: To vote or not to vote for a candidate who can win. Noam says vote. Glenn says don’t vote. If we support Read More …
One America News Network (OAN or OANN) got really mad that Rachel Maddow said its network was Russian propaganda. “The most obsequiously pro-Trump right wing news outlet in America really literally is paid Russian propaganda,” Read More …
A perfectly partisan 5-4 Supreme Court opinion in June took the “public” out of public access channels. From now on, if a private party runs a public access channel, then censorship rules. Brett Kavanaugh wrote Read More …
The Donald Trump Department of Justice issued a press release yesterday to report to the public that four of the very fine people in the Rise Above Movement (RAM) who rioted in Charlottesville, Virginia, nearly Read More …
After a purely partisan 5-4 Republican Supreme Court opinion guarantees states the power to commit ‘extreme partisan gerrymandering,’ who does the official Board of The Washington Post go after? Democrats, of course. Republicans on the Read More …
There once was a thing called representative democracy, where voters chose the people who would represent them — at least in form. That form ends today as a perfectly partisan 5-4 Supreme Court determines that Read More …
Once upon a time there was a robust alternative or independent online community, taking on both Democrats and Republicans and shooting for a better world beyond the paradigm of the party leaders and the large Read More …
What if there were many businesses in a chain of censorship ready to block “free speech” with no regulation, and any one of them could stop or restrict your free speech? There already are. In Read More …