…at dangerously high levels that (i) ensure that the military-industrial complex will find a war or quasi-war in which to engage their newest toys while (ii) sucking resources from public…

…cut to the rich every time they give some kind of break to the poor is engaging in class warfare. Aside on “class warfare”: But of course, the GOP has…

…But it’s Congress that must formally declare war, and Congress probably wouldn’t declare war on itself. One house might declare war on the other, but that wouldn’t meet the Constitution’s…

…Iowa under the guise of a populist who understands the worries of the downtrodden labor class in America. The Wall Street Journal (Jan. 7-8, 2012) says that he “cast[s] himself…

…admire the accuracy of article’s heading as a label of its contents until one realizes it is not actually intended as a confession. I wrote to Professor Williams about the…

…and outspoken progressive wing of his caucus, led by Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who have legions of supporters. But he also has five red-state Democrats…

…the biggest recession since World War II (and succeeding) and a 40-year cold war (eventually succeeding). It seems foolish to draw any grand, sweeping conclusions from that single and arguably…

…split over a war — in this case the US-Vietnamese war. The Social Democrats supported US involvement in the war. The Democratic Socialists opposed it. This is a common reason…

…Depression/War Babies 1929 to 1945, the Baby Boomers, 1946 to 1964, Gen-X from 1965 to 1983, and the Millennials from 1984 to 2001. In our first story who is the…

…oil giants seem to be backtracking on promises they had made to reduce their contributions to global warming. Exxon, for example, has dropped a project to produce environmentally friendly fuels from…