A participating member at DemocraticUnderground.com posted a truthful, and, yes, haunting essay on his frustration with the current state of affairs in the United States. He asks the question: Anyone else just utterly exhausted,…

Max Cleland, who lost three limbs to a Vietnam War hand grenade blast yet went on to serve as a U.S. senator from Georgia, died on Tuesday at his home in Atlanta from congestive…

But There's Still A Chance To Alter Our Course, It Must Be With Every Move We Make   This is sick behavior from Rep. Paul Gosar. He tweeted out the video showing him killing…

Useem. Wolfe. Mills. The political concerns of members of the corporate elite are affected by three competing principles. These principles have fundamentally different implications for the ways in which business managers participate in policy…

Ted 'I Don't Wet The Bed' Cruz: Hey, We Have a Paris,Too On 7 November 1800, a law was enacted in Paris, France, that made it illegal for women to wear trousers/pants without first…

Happy UnHappy President Joe Biden was a happy guy when the House late Friday night passed his $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The bill now is waiting for his signature. The bill passed with help…

Who CARES? They Did! Billionaires Received Taxpayer-Funded Stimulus Checks During the Pandemic In March 2020, as the first wave of coronavirus infections all but shut down the U.S. economy, Congress responded with rare speed,…

Is There a Republican Alive Who Still Believes in Democracy? Republican state governments are currently passing laws to restrict Democrats from voting in the future, while taking care not to suppress the Republican vote.…

It Is What It Is On Tuesday, Republican Glenn Youngkin, a career private equity executive running his first campaign, defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in not even a close race for Governor in Virginia. Youngkin…

Rousseau. Hegel. Hall.   As soon as the act of association becomes reality, it substitutes for the person of each of the contracting parties a moral and collective body made up of as many…

Republican Lt. Governor Mark Robinson of North Carolina said he's almost certain he will run for governor in 2024. Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson of North Carolina is a Christian nationalist. On Friday, at a…

Can't Step Out of The Fantasy   Many campaign promises fail to make the Biden BBB framework as Democrats coming to terms with shrinking agenda   The new $1.75 trillion framework and Biden’s morning…

Prescription Drug Reforms Are Out Of The Spending Deal, At Least For Now No reforms would be a major setback for Democrats, a big victory for the drug industry — and a loss for…

Biden/Manchin HC Compromise Joe Biden, who received over 81 million American votes giving him that seat in the Oval Office, and the senator from West Virginia who makes millions from coal, Joe Manchin, came…

In an opinion piece on Tuesday at The Guardian, Robert Reich poses a familiar, and some may say inevitable, Democratic Party policy outcome: Is Biden's entire agenda about to shrink into nothingness? While Dr.…

Carlin. Mauro. Marx.   Boy, these conservatives are really something, aren't they? They're all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn. But once you're born, you're on your own.…

School Board Protests Are Not Grassroots Movement, Are Not Spontaneous Conservatives are disrupting school board meetings by shouting, using Nazi salutes, and even physically assaulting anyone they disagree with. But these attacks are anything…

'No issue is more important than voting rights'. Agreed!   “Let’s be clear: Obstructing the Freedom to Vote Act was as subversive as state voter-suppression actions to roll back access to the vote, as…