What if April Fools' day was used to put out the headlines we'd really like to see. Here are a few offerings based on this idea.
Opinions & Commentary
The message from Charles Koch is clear. Fascism and authoritarian government are part of the Koch business model.
There are lessons to be learned from the abject failure being demonstrated by Putin's infantile use of force.
The mantra of "family values" is simply a license to hate. Putin knows this. For Republicans, stamping out homosexuality trumps democracy and is why they can embrace Putin.
After a month on the road, the incoherent procession of truckers, crackpots, crybabies, small dogs, big mouths and old guys in Uncle Sam costumes finally morphed into...a lynch mob crusading against black people.
Spending 12 times as much on our military budget as Russia didn’t prevent a war in Europe. It just deprived us of resources at home.
Trump is counting on the Big Lie to divert uninformed voters from the truth. He's betting that the apathy of others will allow his organized minority to prevail.
Two recent news articles illustrate the scary similarities between Russian attitudes toward future generations and those of Republican representatives here.
Wars never go as planned. Putin's decision to go to war in Ukraine has backfired so severely that the Russian economy has nearly collapsed in a matter of one week. Not quite what he had in mind.
Tax havens in past times were sleepy Caribbean backwaters. But now the US, led by investor-friendly financial secrecy laws in states like South Dakota and Delaware, has emerged as a global center for hiding illicit wealth.
Republicans are resorting to book burning as a protest against teaching history with things like the 1619 Project. In reality it depicts is a history of triumph, achievement, endurance, incremental victories against impossible odds and courage.
The enduring questions of war are, "How does a normal person decide to become a random killer of civilians? What has seized his normal social human intellect to become a callous murderer?"
Like the Czars of the past who miscalculated how much idiocy and bloodshed the peasants and serfs would tolerate before they revolted, Putin's social calculus is deeply flawed.
Don’t for a minute believe any notion that Ukraine will be a pushover for Putin. Soon he will have to answer to the parents and loved ones of Russian soldiers who have died for him but not for Russia.
Prices are going up everywhere. Corporations say it is "inflation" and want smaller government and lower taxes as "solutions." The reality is very different.
Shallow reporting is something that Trump and his enablers have relied upon since 2015. It not only enables astroturfing of outrageous claims and false flag black propaganda operations, it amplifies them.