by Common Dreams | Jun 27, 2023 | Opinions & Commentary
Republished with permission from Common Dreams, by Abby Zimet Swaddled in sanctimony, bigotry and mawkish nostalgia for a time in America when white men ran everything, right-wing evangelical fabulists gathered this weekend at a Faith and Freedom confab to celebrate...
by Marty Kassowitz | Jun 25, 2023 | Opinions & Commentary
The “Firehose of Falsehood” is a Russian propaganda technique documented by a study from the Rand Corporation. It is a formidable technique and hard to counter and deal with. And it has been fully adopted by the Republican Party and its supporters, donors...
by Common Dreams | Jun 23, 2023 | Opinions & Commentary
Talk about “conduct unbecoming”: A vengeful, ignominious GOP just barely passed a farcical censure resolution against Adam Schiff for doing his duty, confronting “one of the most egregious abuses of presidential power in our history,” and...
by Thom Hartmann | Jun 22, 2023 | Opinions & Commentary
Back in 2022, I suggested that our federal government should spend about one-third of the cost of the Trump Tax Cuts to buy the three largest oil companies in this country. They could then be run for the public interest, prevented from continuing to fund climate...
by Governing Magazine | Jun 19, 2023 | Opinions & Commentary
Where do we go from here? First, I cannot as a historian put Mr. Donald Trump’s indictment into context because this has never happened before in our 247-year history. That’s the context. It’s unprecedented. The classified documents case will play itself out in the...
by Thom Hartmann | Jun 15, 2023 | Opinions & Commentary
Increasingly, the Republican Party is consolidating its power in a minority of states and turning them into little laboratories of neo-fascism. This is tough on people in those states—particularly people who are Black, queer, or female—but what is its larger impact on...