In a purely practical way, the present deportation debate is simply the essence of demagoguery.
Posts Tagged: Ted Cruz
Cruz’s team spans the spectrum from run-of-the-mill neocon to flaming Islamophobe.
American democracy has been failing for decades, so a disturbing number of us are turning to authoritarianism. Is Trump our Juan Perón?
There's a huge opening to critique the economic foundations of America's wars — one that fits perfectly with the populist anger fueling the rise of Bernie Sanders.
Our foreign policy is aggressive, parochial, and hard-hearted. Unless voters finally demand differently, our next president will be the same.
Our wildly inflated fear of terrorism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In its failure to prosecute bona fide war criminals, the Obama administration has left the door open for all manner of rights abusers to succeed it.
There's a bipartisan effort to justify the killing of civilians in the "war on terrorism."
Iranians have a sovereign right to choose whomever they want to represent them at the UN, just as Texans have the right to choose whatever Ivy League meathead they want to represent them in Congress.
A mindless, voracious invasive species threatens to take over politics as surely as the maritime version took over the Black Sea.