| Nov 1, 2017 | Peace / SecurityIn June, our Tweety Bird president tweeted this message to members of the U.S. Army: “Proud to be your commander-in-chief.” Actually, Trump is only the delegator-in-chief — he’s passed to subordinates a president’s most solemn duty of guiding our...
| Oct 25, 2017 | Peace / SecurityFive former U.S. presidents recently came together to raise money for hurricane relief for the victims of hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria. This generous, bipartisan act is one of true generosity and statesmanship. And yet, as former presidents, all five men know...
| | Environment / Health|Rights / DemocracyGood news, people — at last, congressional Democrats have gotten a clue, grown some spine, and are beginning to act like… well, like progressives. In particular, a majority of Dems in the U.S. House are responding to the rising public demand that decent health care be...
| Oct 18, 2017 | Peace / Security“Me too.” I posted those words on Facebook recently, along with what seems like every woman I know. A post went viral asking each woman to write the words “Me too” if she’d been sexually assaulted or harassed. A man exposed himself to me once....
| | Economy / BusinessThere’s a robot in your future. Not one of those cute little labor-saving automatons — like a “Roomba” vacuum cleaner. Far from saving you from doing extra labor, this new wave of robots is being brought into your workplace to rescue corporate bosses...