“The Wreck of the Old Ninety-Seven” is a classic bluegrass song recounting a spectacular train crash in 1903, caused by... Read more...
Stuff happens, right? I mean, who could’ve thought that in these modern times of digital monitoring of everything, something as... Read more...
People are baffled by the surreal saga of George Santos, the bizarre Republican congress critter who is a bottomless sink... Read more...
I’ve never been a farmer, but I’ve learned quite a bit about being one from the many I’ve known. Start... Read more...
Who were the robber barons? The originals, I mean. They were a class of minor lords in feudal Germany who’d... Read more...
It’s not the people who’ve “gone conservative,” it’s the Democratic establishment. Too many progressive organizations, especially larger Washington-based groups, have been too willing for too long to follow what in essence is the party’s business-as-usual corporate hierarchy. Read more...
Fascism – it’s a term we don’t use lightly. But when the overwhelming power of corporations over Congress and the... Read more...
Most intolerable is the steady drip-drip-drip of power it drains from America's democratic ideals and commitment to the Common Good. I can't say that Abbott and DeSantis are the worst that the GOP will try to put in the White House in 2024, but either one is a signpost of an increasingly assertive American fascism. Read more...
For two decades, the GOP’s network of corporate and right-wing operatives has painstakingly fabricated the Supreme Court as its own... Read more...
You've probably never heard of Leonard Leo, but this obscure, far-right ideologue is a major capo in the tight little world of the anti-democracy extremists who hold an iron grip on today's Republican leadership. Read more...
For two decades, the GOP’s network of corporate and right-wing operatives has painstakingly fabricated the Supreme Court as its own... Read more...
Today’s six-member GOP majority has surrendered all claim to being an impartial force for justice. Instead, the GOP’s network of corporate and right-wing operatives has fabricated and weaponized the court to increase their power over the rest of us. Read more...
What the GOP bemoans as America's inflation problem, is actually a corporate greed problem. Read more...
Breaking news: “Trump says Pentagon Budget Too Big.” Follow-up report: “Pentagon Agrees.” This unexpected budgetary breakthrough comes because Donald The... Read more...
Our fearless "leader," who cravenly got his rich daddy to help him dodge actual war during the Vietnam era, is now up on his high horse--in comic Napoleonic pose-- demanding that the Pentagon, Congress, and we taxpayers set up another military bureaucracy for sending future youngsters to war: Space Force. Read more...
Question: How have autocratic REC boards gotten away with openly stiffing their owner-members and flaunting the fundamental democratic principles of... Read more...
For a gross example of corruption, deceit, and rigged elections by a co-op board and its manager, Oklahoma’s Choctaw Electric... Read more...
Co-op electricity has transformed rural America, but the co-ops offer something even more electrifying: democratic power. Despite the strength and popular appeal of the co-op approach, RECs in regions where they are large and numerous have hardly been models of dynamic progress. Even when they face stagnant economies and widespread poverty, many co-ops charge exorbitant rates and cling to a toxic legacy of coal-fired power plants spewing pollutants. What happened? Read more...
You might expect such liberal bastions as Boston, Madison, Boulder, and San Francisco to call for an end to corporate... Read more...
In order of the date of passage, here are the 16 states that have already petitioned Congress to let their... Read more...
So many absurdities abound in our lives that there’s a whole body of philosophical thought called “absurdism,” as well as... Read more...
Imagine my surprise when Robert Marcus, COO of Time Warner Cable, reached out to me in March. I don’t get... Read more...
A critic of President Obama’s policy of allowing everyone’s electronic communications to be dumped into the NSA’s computer netherworld recently... Read more...
Who knew that 1984 was a how-to manual? Of course, George Orwell did not intend for his novel about life in a... Read more...
In January, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the intelligence committee, teamed up with her House counterpart, Rep. Mike Rogers, to... Read more...