Let’s talk pills. To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day, and nearly all of us reach for the pill bottle on occasion. It’s perfectly safe,...
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 sitting in the Rose Garden, the...
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 up the prices on...
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. Yet, as we frantically scramble to deter the health...
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 previously apolitical multitudes) who’re now clamoring...
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 system, many of them are...
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 Biden, and derail America’s...
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...
It’s over. Donald the Dealmaker says that he has negotiated an end to America’s long nightmare in Afghanistan, finally terminating 18-plus years of grinding war (the longest in US history). Only… he hasn’t. His “deal”...
“Socialism,” snarled The Donald at a recent pep rally of far-right Republicans. And the obedient crowd of Trumpistas snarled back in unison: So-sh’ll-izz-ummm! There you have the entire intellectual content of the GOP’s 2020 re-election...