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Suddenly, “social distancing” is our new national etiquette, abruptly supplanting handshakes, hugs, gatherings, and other forms of ingrained communal behavior... Read more...

Amazingly, America has become a nation of socialists, asking in dismay: “Where’s the government?” These are not born-again Bernie Sanders... Read more...

What’s the Weirdest Species of All? I love those nature shows that probe the behavior and intelligence of birds, elephants,... Read more...

Our society has coined expressions like “philanthropist” to encourage and hail people’s charitable spirit. Look on the flip side of... Read more...

What’s the matter with the post office? The US Postal Service, I mean – the corporate hierarchy that runs this... Read more...

One public service that people really like and count on is the post office – which literally delivers for us.... Read more...

As Lyndon Johnson used to say about special interests trying to get his support to pass some blatantly self-serving legislation:... Read more...

When grassroots groups rise up against the corporate establishment to try winning some specific progressive changes for the common good,... Read more...

Right-wing Republicans and corporate Democrats have become a pathetic bunch of “No-can-do Nancys.” Faced with an economy reeling from the... Read more...

Let’s talk pills. To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day,... Read more...

“Socialism,” snarled The Donald at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. And the obedient crowd of Trumpistas snarled back... Read more...

As an old saying puts it, “Where there’s a will – there are a thousand won’ts.” Sure enough, here come... Read more...

We might expect that corporate billionaires and Koch-funded Republican right-wingers would be howl-at-the-moon opponents of a wealth tax, Medicare-for-All, and... Read more...

There’s a new political army on the march in America: Tromp-tromp-tromp they came, it’s the Billionaire Brigade! It’s actually a... Read more...

Donald Trump’s idea of a good farm program seems to be “Hee Haw.” On a recent trip to Wisconsin, he... Read more...

Government by the rich is called plutocracy. Government by police power is autocracy. Government by thieves is kleptocracy. Government by... Read more...

While Donald Trump fans the embers of xenophobia in our country by demonizing caravans of desperate Latinos headed north from... Read more...

You probably haven’t heard about it, but there’s another mass migration coming across the US-Mexico border. However, these are not... Read more...

For $3.5 Trillion a year, shouldn’t we Americans have a world-class healthcare system? Yet, while we spend the most of any... Read more...

Last year, Donald Trump said something stupid. Okay, nothing astonishing about that – but this stupid thing did astonish an... Read more...

Let’s talk Turkey! No, not the Butterball sitting in the Oval Office. I’m talking about the real thing, the big... Read more...

From the very start of our nation, the most popular forum for debating and shaping our democratic rights was not... Read more...

There’s a hunter’s nightmare in which a group of them flush some rabbits out of the brush. But rather than... Read more...

How’re you gonna keep ’em down on the farm after they’ve seen … Angus? Not “Angus,” the breed of cattle,... Read more...

From kitchen tables worldwide you can hear a chorus of parents chastising their children with the same refrain: “Stop playing... Read more...