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Finding Reasons for Progressive Optimism Aug. 17, 2022

Jim Hightower

From corporate polluters to political bosses, power elites try to create a myth of inevitability, tr... Read More

Why Should Work Be Life-Sucking? Aug. 10, 2022

Jim Hightower

"Work your fingers to the bone — whadda ya get? Boney Fingers." This 1960s folk song mocking t... Read More

Pro-Golfers Dirty Themselves By "Sportswashing" Aug. 03, 2022

Jim Hightower

When a golfer hits an errant shot that might bonk an unsuspecting spectator on the head, the proper ... Read More

Sorry, Progressives, But America Isn't Intersectional Jul. 29, 2022

Michael Barone

America isn't intersectional. That's something the left-wingers who call themselves progressives hav... Read More

How a Clerical Error Made Corporations 'People' Jul. 27, 2022

Jim Hightower

There's a historic date, which our country ought to mark every year, that has had as great an impact... Read More

The Sunshine State's Dark Bully Jul. 20, 2022

Jim Hightower

Many members of the extremist establishment have a new darling in Ron DeSantis. For example, the edi... Read More

Trump's Knots and Dots: It's All Over Jul. 20, 2022

Jamie Stiehm

A figurative noose is tightening around Donald Trump's neck. The sweet thing is that he knows it. T... Read More

How Anti-abortion Laws Complicate Medical Degrees in Women's Health Jul. 15, 2022

Holding Space for Good

We have a big medical mess that will cost women their lives and physicians their competency. That re... Read More

A Summer Full of Sadness and Dark Signs Jul. 13, 2022

Jamie Stiehm

You know the moments that mean nothing will ever be the same? Like the loss of a beloved friend, unb... Read More

Beware: The GOP Has Chosen to Embrace the Crazy Jul. 13, 2022

Jim Hightower

In the 1990s, the sharp-witted Texan and renowned progressive writer Molly Ivins regaled (and appall... Read More

'Women' Shall Not Be Erased Jul. 12, 2022

Froma Harrop

Last time most of us looked, "bodies with vaginas" could be more simply described as women. Same wen... Read More

From Lame President to Lame Duck Jul. 06, 2022

Jim Hightower

Former President Donald Trump's criminal use of lies and mob violence to steal the 2020 election fai... Read More

Courting Dissolution: An Unprincipled Gang of Justices Threatens to Take America Down Jul. 05, 2022

Jeff Robbins

In December 2000, then-Rep. Edward Markey was at a charity dinner in Boston, and the conversation tu... Read More

Now More Than Ever, We All Still Need Feminism Jul. 03, 2022

My So-Called Millennial Life

My first boyfriend asked me to join him for church services. He asked if I could wear a dress. I did... Read More

Who Will Help the Women? Jul. 01, 2022

Holding Space for Good

The first thing I did when Roe v. Wade was overturned was apologize to my daughters. The Dobbs v. Ja... Read More

Supreme Court Lost Its License to Practice Law Jun. 29, 2022

Jamie Stiehm

Over one last cup of coffee in Athens, Greece, it became clear they've gone too far. The shameless S... Read More

Bum Rap: Slimed by the Right, Sniped at by the Left, Joe Biden Presses On Jun. 28, 2022

Jeff Robbins

If you follow Fox News, the big story of the week wasn't about the former American president who urg... Read More

A New Kind of Comedy Jun. 22, 2022

John Stossel

A woman tells the cop who stopped her in a carpool lane she's allowed to drive there because her pro... Read More

Athens and America: Helpful Hints for the Fix We're In Jun. 22, 2022

Jamie Stiehm

ATHENS, GREECE — Greetings from the land where democracy began 2,500 years ago. I came seekin... Read More

Education is Opportunity Jun. 22, 2022

Jim Hightower

In constitutional terms, America must be educated as broadly as possible "In order to form a more pe... Read More