Thom Hartmann: Trump Is the Most Dangerous Criminal in US History
His most dangerous crime is not simply corruption or obstruction, nor even incitement of insurrection: It’s the deliberate attempted destruction of American democracy itself.
Video: Robert Reich | Elmo Under Attack
Why does Trump hate Sesame Street?
Ta’Kyla Bates: Red states are about to go hungry thanks to Trump
GOP lawmakers are taking food out of the mouths of kids — including their own constituents — to put toward tax cuts for billionaires.
Derrick Z. Jackson: Administration Cuts Will Leave No Refuge for Wildlife
Smyrna, Delaware—Bald eagles descended to pose on the banks and boulders on the mudflats. Shorebirds bobbed in shallow pools. Great blue herons, great egrets, and snowy egrets snapped up fish … Continue reading
Abby Zimet: Dungeons and Aliens
People grabbed at court, guys chased and pummeled at Home Depot, women cuffed as their kids cry, crowds shouting in rage. A guy on the ground, piled on by thugs, screams, “I’m an American!” Brown workers at a car wash are dragged off past two dazed white workers.
Sarah Anderson, Lindsay Koshgarian: 10 Ways the GOP’s Big Ugly Bill Could Hurt You
The Trump’s new spending bill represents the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich since chattel slavery.
Alfred McCoy: America’s New Industrial Revolution
Ten years from now, Trump will be remembered ruefully for having used the full force of presidential power in a failed, futile effort to halt the tides of technological change that, by then, will have launched this country headlong into the world’s new industrial revolution.
Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg: Calls to GI Hotlines Rise as Service Members Consider Defying Trump’s Orders
“I can’t believe whoever fell for the lie that the military is apolitical, but with Trump, it feels dangerously political, like we’re being used as pawns. We’re the saber that he’s rattling.”
Miles O’Brien, et al: The scientific impact of Trump’s cuts to NOAA and the National Weather Service
Experts have been warning for months that drastic and sudden cuts at the National Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability and endanger lives during the storm season. Here is what the science reporter for PBS said in February.
Kim Stafford: Four Poems
Her text says the bombing is getting
closer. She dozes, there’s a blast, a rattle
of debris falling somewhere near. She says
every bomb makes an earthquake. Her heart
stops. She says the forces are getting closer.
Rebecca Gordon: How Will Your Data Be Deployed
In an Age of Dark Enlightenment?
Henry A. Giroux: From the Streets of LA to the National Stage, The Left Must Win the Cultural War
Trump’s war on dissent can only be defeated by a left that challenges the values sustaining authoritarianism.
Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove: Americans Don’t Want Trump’s Illegal War on Iran
Trump has dragged the United States into another unnecessary war because his “America First” agenda is failing at home. He is using big bombs like a little man.
Robert Cording: An Unasked for Inauguration Prayer, 2025
Lord of the light that reveals
how we have failed and failed again
the one requirement asked of us—
to love one another.
