Opinion

A minor infraction cost me my driver’s license, my job, thousands of dollars, and over a decade entangled with a system that punishes poverty.

Why is it controversial to spend on social programs but not the Pentagon? Or to subsidize the poor but not the rich?

Poverty is a policy choice.

When Rep. Margorie Taylor Greene talked of “Jewish space lasers, we just close our ears and wait until they stop talking. But that might not be the best approach for these Republicans.

As the former president continues to stoke his base with his big lie that the election was stolen, Republican lawmakers are adding fuel to the fire, pushing more Americans into Trump’s paranoid nightmare.

The billions our billionaires are grabbing currently face a next-to-nothing tax rate.

CEOs shouldn’t have a financial stake in the murderous mass violence of modern warfare.

"I’m as sensitive as anyone to the sufferings of Afghani’s now, but I’ve had it with the sanctimony of journalists and pundits who haven’t thought about Afghanistan for 20 years."

Not only did the federal minimum wage not keep pace with productivity growth, it did not even keep pace with inflation.

The Trumpist media is quickly falling in line behind nativist rubbish about immigrants spreading COVID-19.