This looks like bad news.  Iran's foreign minister, JMohammed avad Zarif, hass resigned.  Apparently he has previously tried to resign s...

CEOs of 7 pharmaceutical multinationals addressed the Senate Finance Committee : Pharma execs offer Senate ideas to lower drug costs – exce...

A few weeks ago I speculated on the structural aspect of neoliberalism at an economy-wide level, the way its characteristic framing of econ...

An edited video of an encounter between Senator Diane Feinstein of California and a group of young campaigners for the Green New Deal is eli...

While the wise and up-to-date observers declare the two state solution between Israel and Palestine to be deader than dead, I continue to th...

"When we first came to Washington in 1933," FDR Labor Secretary Francis Perkins wrote in her memoir, The Roosevelt I Knew , ...

I’m a professor at Evergreen State College.  This year I assigned a new-ish book I hadn’t yet read to my class, and to my chagrin I discover...

The Trump gang has kicked up a ruckus over its plan to insert a question about citizenship in the 2020 decennial census.  It’s a transparen...

Here are some varieties of "socialism:" command socialism, market socialism, socialist market economy, social democracy, democrati...

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a political statement triggering evidence (mixed) about its own truth as dramatically as Ilhan Omar’s quip that...

In lieu of an obituary, I am reposting Politics of Pastiche: "voters... need someone to fire all the political-correct police"  fr...

That would be Robert J. Samuelson at the Washington Post, and, yes, he has done it yet again, actually for the first time in a while.  Dean ...

Elizabeth Warren made an impressive speech just now in the freezing cold of Lawrence, Massachusetts: Sen. Elizabeth Warren officially laun...

A week ago I posted here supporting VA Gov Ralph Northam, comparing him favorably to the late Robert C. Byrd of WV.  A day later I joined th...

"Unless productivity goes up by at least 25% to compensate, everyone will be worse off."  "Dropping hours from 5 days a we...