Democracy

I usually try to get back to the Commonwealth once a year. I've lived for the past 30 years in the same part of...

Americans Elect feels like a Koch-Brothers-type Tea Partying of the Left and Indies. Exploit the anger and frustration of the constituency and drive them together under a populist tent...that's in fact owned by the wealthy.

 The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical elements in the quality of life we...

Calls for a presidential primary challenger seem to fall into common messaging traps that don't help progressives on the whole.

What's totally oxymoronic is that Hillary has suddenly been reconstructed as the Great (and White) Progressive Hope.

Results for tonight's recall elections in WI are already starting to trickle in, updates will be posted below in comments.

  Good morning, Planeteers! I trust you all are doing okay, having come through all this angst. Now that Congress is on their five-week PAID vacation,...

Remember that Monty Python skit where the Texas movie producer gets a bunch of screenwriters in a room and badgers them all until they...

Obama haters of all stripes and alleged political positions are joined in a chorus of furious, self-righteous bleating, like a flock of sheep with gas pains.

  It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. ~Thomas Jefferson   So here we are,...