Voice of the People

The real class war and Rollerball’s mirror: Who is fighting whom, what is at stake, and how close we are to the corporate dystopia Warren Buffett’s observation in 2006 that “there’s class warfare going on in America, my class is…

America is an energy superpower — but that is both a triumph and a challenge while the planet burns and China builds much of the machinery that could replace fossil-fuels

How the K-shaped recovery became a permanent condition The American economy is no longer a single system. It is two systems sharing one currency, a common border, and a counterfactual national mythology.In one, wealth compounds while its owners sleep. In…

The last public execution in America was in 1936. It was so grotesque it ended the practice for good. Pete Hegseth should die in private, shielded from the publicity he craves—because public execution is a barbaric act that America abandoned…

A US military AI report nearly started a war with China after falsely flagging a ship as carrying nuclear components, echoing Cold War false alarms and underscoring the importance of human oversight.

American power has become a machine for mass murder that takes exception to the notion of being held accountable for malicious misconduct There is a particular kind of arrogance that can only be bred in a nation that has spent…

If democracy is the appropriate safeguard against concentrated power in government, then it should also be used to protect American citizens from concentrated economic power.

The privatization of everything: When public goods become profit centers and citizens become customers The English enclosure movement, unfolding over several centuries and reaching its most destructive phase between 1750 and 1850, converted the common lands that had sustained peasant…

In just six years, the Social Security trust fund is projected to run dry, and 70 million Americans face an automatic 22% benefit cut, a reduction of roughly $440 per month on average.

A poem on the freedom we were sold, the cage with a paycheck inside, and why we keep saying yes—because the prison has no bars. It has a credit score.

The slow-moving courts are aiding and abetting Trump’s second-term agenda More than 850 lawsuits have been filed against the second Trump administration since January 2025, a legal onslaught that has only partially halted executive actions in more than 150 cases.…