Glorious news, people! The renowned professor of pandemicology, Dr. Donald Trump, has found the magical antidote to coronavirus that had eluded lesser scientists. It's the Peter Cottontail Solution. While sitti... Read more...

Wartime profiteering has been as common in our country as war itself. Indeed, during the American Revolution assorted corrupt merchants and traders lined their pockets by controlling the supply and jacking u... Read more...

Suddenly, "social distancing" is our new national etiquette, abruptly supplanting handshakes, hugs, gatherings, and other forms of ingrained communal behavior by us humans. Awkward. Disconcerting. Isolating. ... Read more...

Amazingly, America has become a nation of socialists, asking in dismay: "Where's the government?" These are not born-again Bernie Sanders activists, but everyday people of all political stripes (including pr... Read more...

There's a short-circuit in the political convictions of some progressive-minded voters these days. While big majorities are making clear that they need and want bold, transformative changes in today's rigged... Read more...

The Democratic Party's moneyed and political establishment – backed by a screeching chorus of corporate media voices – are gloating that they've successfully ganged up to demonize Bernie Sanders, deify Joe Bide... Read more...

When dealing in matters of war and peace, shouldn't a president sort of know what he or she is doing? But that's not Donald Trump's way. On February 29, he grandly announced that he had cut a peace deal to e... Read more...

Remember when candidate Trump promised not only to wall-out all migrants crossing our Mexican border, but also to make Mexico pay for his xenophobic wall? Well, Mexico hasn't paid a peso... and won't. So, he... Read more...

Big, high walls can be troublesome. Ask Humpty Dumpty. However, for a real-life, epic story about wall troubles, ponder the trials and tribulations of our very own president. He can't seem to get his one, "b... Read more...

As Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation: "They can't make chicken salad out of chicken sh*t." Yet, chicken sh*t is all ... Read more...

When grassroots groups rise up against the corporate establishment to try winning some specific progressive changes for the common good, the odds against them can seem daunting. As an old saying puts it: Where ... Read more...

Our society has coined expressions like "philanthropist" to encourage and hail people's charitable spirit. Look on the flip side of that shiny coin of generosity, however, and you'll find that its base subst... Read more...

What's the Weirdest Species of All? I love those nature shows that probe the behavior and intelligence of birds, elephants, and other fellow creatures. However, there's one exotic critter the shows have i... Read more...

I'm guessing that being rich is a comfortable feeling – no money worries, you're set for life! But is it possible that too rich can be too much, even discombobulating? Imagine being Mark Zuckerberg, whose so... Read more...

As Ray Charles wailed in a song of true-life blues: "Them that's got is them that gets/And I ain't got nothin' yet." While the workaday majority of Americans continue to be mired in our low-wage economy, the... Read more...