Global heating effects in the Arctic are already disastrous.

Global heating in the Arctic may already have passed tipping points so that it would be difficult to stop.

The Republicans' next attack against the poor: a scheme to underestimate the poverty line even more in the future.

Facebook pressures political organizations to show ads only to people that Facebook believes support them. It charges extra to show the ads to anyone else.

This has the effect of encouraging twofaced campaigning.

Nonprogressive US legislators gave the Pentagon even more than the war-lover asked for, and didn't raise the question of "how will we pay for it"

That question is raised whenever progressives propose to protect non-rich Americans from the bigger dangers — hunger, homelessness, mounting debt, surprise medical expenses, and global heating disaster — because the wealthy believe they can cope with those problems on their own, by abandoning the rest of their country.

They may be right, in regard to most of those dangers. Rich people are not likely to lack money for food, shelter, or medical care. But they can't save themselves from global heating disaster alone.

The bully plans a sneaky, indirect move to force US universities to shut down student groups that support the Palestinian boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign to end Israel's military occupation of Palestine.

On all issues pertaining to Israel, I ask myself, "What would Uri Avnery do?" Avnery, who grew up in Germany and saw Nazis in power, compared the oppression of Palestinians to the Nazi oppression of Jews. in the 1930s. He used the term "Araberrein", meaning "without any Arabs", to describe Israel's real goal for the West bank, as a reference to the Nazi term "Judenrein".

A legal requirement for people to keep silence about this truth is political censorship.