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‘Impeach Justice Clarence Thomas’ Petition Nears 1 Million Signatures
an indication of growing public outrage over the right-wing judge's proximity to efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his role in the ongoing attack on constitutional freedoms.
The petition, posted to the website of progressive advoc…
Alito’s Bad History Meets the Vendetta of Clarence Thomas
SCOTUS - The Dobbs opinion overturning Roe. v. Wade is another marker on the road to where Republicans and the U.S. Supreme Court's conserv…
Are Democrats Clueless About Impending Election Doom?
MID TERMS - Armageddon comes November 8. Pundits and progressives have been warning Democrats for months that if they don't change course a…
Justice Clarence Thomas Is Ready To Undo More Rights
RIGHTS VS. SCOTUS - In June alone, the conservative-slanted Supreme Court voted to weaken Miranda rights, required states to fund private r…
To Prevent Formula Shortages, Break Up Monopolies
SUPPLY CHAIN - It’s a tough time to be the parent of a newborn in the United States today.
Lone Star Hate: How Texas Lost Its Mind
GUEST COMMENTARY - Last weekend in Houston, Texas Republicans got a taste of just how far right their party has become.
Only Radical Changes Will Make Rents Affordable
UN-AFFORDABLE HOUSING - The affordable rental housing situation in the US has been in crisis from as early as the 1960s, and it has only wo…
Celebrating Juneteenth With Bold New Ideas
EMANCIPATION - One day in late June, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas. They carried some historic news:
Even If Never Convicted, Donald J. Trump Will Live In Infamy
HISTORICAL RECORD - What's the use of the hearings by the House committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection—
Merrick Garland’s “Existential” Choice
AN 6 JUSTICE - Nobody on the Left should deride as insignificant the current public US House hearings on Donald Trump’s effort to stay in p…
Steve Bannon Trying To Shield At Least One Conversation With Trump From Jan. 6 Investigators
EXECUTIVE PRIViLEGE? - Steve Bannon is trying to keep at least one conversation with Donald Trump shielded from the House select committee.
Crypto-Carnage Hits Every Asset Class Tied to Crypto
FINANCIAL CRISIS - It wasn’t just cryptocurrencies that crashed Monday, it was crypto exchanges, crypto mining stocks, publicly-traded comp…
The Collateral Damage Comes Home
MASS SHOOTINGS - “They were at places that seemed safe — but few spaces in America are guaranteed safe anymore.”
Bipartisan Senate Deal on Guns Deemed ‘Pathetically Weak’
GUN REFORM - A group of 20 U.S. senators announced a deal Sunday on an outline of a bill designed to give the appearance that they are taki…
Newsom Says CA is an Abortion ‘Sanctuary.’ But for Whom?
SCOTUS WATCH - This month, Politico broke the news that the US Supreme Court had decided to overturn the historic abortion rights decision …
Warren, Murray Lead Call for Biden to Defend Abortion Rights via Executive Order
WOMEN’S RIGHTS - With the U.S. Supreme Court expected to issue a ruling later this month that could overturn Roe v. Wade and imperil aborti…
We Need a Strong "Wealth Squad" to Counter the Endless Defenses of the Megarich
TAXING THE VERY RICH - Whenever there are new or proposed changes to tax law, your eyes may glaze over as they skim the headlines.
Violence in America: It’s Not Just About Guns
CRIME WATCH - In 1993 I was living in a house in Kenyon Street in the Mount Pleasant neighborhood of Washington DC when a gunman started sh…
How Corporations Are Using Inflation to Take Your Money
US ECONOMY - Unless we address this growing imbalance, corporations will continue siphoning off the economy's gains into their CEOs' and sh…
Human Rights: We're Going Backwards
HISTORY REPEATS - Several years ago I went to a small conference in Washington, D.C., and sat in on a lecture on “a new era of statecraft.”
