How do you convince current or potential adversaries that in the event of nuclear attack you will respond in kind?
Resetting the Nuclear Doomsday Clock
In addition to the mini-nukes to be loaded onto missiles on nuclear subs, Trump is also advocating a modernized anti missile defense system
Labor Strikes, once Blunted by GOP and Corporations, are Back and Shaping Public Policy
The teachers strikes have been focused on demands that have a major impact on the quality of classroom instruction
Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Right that Tax Justice is Key to our Democratic Prospect?
US “much greater shares of national wealth and income going to the richest 1% than any other country.”
Why isn’t anyone Asking *Why* the French Yellow Vest Protesters are Rallying?
The tax on diesel followed a whole series of tax gifts to the most wealthy French citizens and businesses
Defeating the Fasc-Lican Party
After the election I received a provocative letter from my friend and mentor Bill Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins and author of Aspirational Fascism: The Struggle for Multifaceted Democracy under Trumpism. Bill has had a long and distinguished career in academia—and in activism. As a graduate student at Michigan he helped […]
After Mitch McConnell’s coup: Democratizing the Court, Democratizing America
The Supreme Court is a major force adding to systematic injustice
Men’s Bodies and the Politics of Abortion
(Informed Comment) – Regardless of one’s evaluation of his overall performance, Judge Brett Kavanaugh merits an A for his ability to sidestep or evade questions on any controversial issue. I get the impression that he spent hours practicing non-answer answers to a familiar battery of anticipated questions. Whether these evasions will continue to work in […]
Let’s Keep Russia’s Hack in Perspective: It isn’t an Excuse for Nuclear Sabre-Rattling
(Informed Comment) – Rhetorical overkill is the order of the day. Russian agents or freelancers were one of many who hacked this and past elections In an election as close as this was, any number of interveners legal or illegal could nave made the difference. Nor have most corporate media asked if Russian hacking is […]
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