The Rain on Our Yes-We-Now-Have-a-Vaccine! Parade
What could be better than a drug that can stop COVID? A society that doesn’t let someone make billions off a drug millions can’t access.
What could be better than a drug that can stop COVID? A society that doesn’t let someone make billions off a drug millions can’t access.
Not even a raging pandemic stopped Republicans from dragging yet another effort to throw millions off their health care to the Supreme Court.
People did not turn out in record numbers in the midst of a pandemic to vote for a return to normal. They want policy change based on a moral agenda.
An unseemly juxtaposition: 220,000 dead and millions lose their health, wealth and livelihoods.
U.S. billionaire wealth has climbed 28 percent since March 18th, 2020. During the same span, global billionaire wealth is up $1.5 trillion.
Make no mistake: The Trump administration’s heartlessness and militarism are costing lives.
Even if Trump loses, his administration may have permanently damaged our standing abroad. But there’s a silver lining: it makes Trumpism an ideological dead-end.
How to get the Democrats’ climate policy from “better than the Republicans” to “sufficient to save the planet.”
NFL owners and even some fans might want to simply watch their teams compete and forget about the world’s problems. Right now, that’s just not possible.
If a few sports walkouts can force change on the national level, imagine what an Amazon or Wal-Mart walkout could do.
Trump shrugged at 150,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths. Who’s to say he’s above starting a fight with China or Iran?
Too many Americans belong to the cult of selfish individualism. In the COVID era, this has become a death cult.
Police departments are over-militarized at the local level, too. Ending the 1033 program is one way to change that.
Countries’ bungling their responses to the coronavirus as others seal themselves off could lead to a total transformation of geopolitics.
To cut 10 percent of the Pentagon budget, let’s end our Middle East wars, reduce reliance on nuclear weapons, and turn off the spigot to arms contractors.