By Silas Rutherford The hit TV show Fallout (2024) opens with a satirical depiction of societies within fallout shelters in a kitsch all-American fashion – like watching a colorful, upbeat advertisement for a soul sucking product. Digital projections of pre nuclear bomb suburban towns overshadow the cement walls one of … Read More

By Tom Valovic This article was originally published in Common Dreams, prior to the 2024 Trump-Harris Presidential Debate.  We should not underestimate the power of debate questions to shape the political landscape. In November 2020, Common Dreams published my op-ed “Three Questions That Didn’t Get Asked During the Presidential Debates (and Probably Never Will).” … Read More

By Joseph Gerson This article is Part II in a series originally published in Common Dreams. Read Part I here.  As she accepted the Democratic nomination, Harris promised to maintain the world’s “most lethal” military and ensure that “America—not China—wins the competition for the 21st century.” It wasn’t until the … Read More

By Sandy Eaton “The market has spoken”. This could be an appropriate epitaph for Steward Health Care’s fourteen years of lies, corruption and greed. It could also be the motto of the Healey-Driscoll-Walsh Administration, as well as of House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka. The health reform … Read More

By Joseph Gerson This article was originally published in Common Dreams.  Between Biden’s withdrawal and election day, there has been little time for either the Democratic Party or former President Donald Trump to define the current vice president. We are weeks away from the seminal U.S. election which will determine … Read More

by Brian Garvey Leaders of the Free World, Policy Makers, Political Players Stackers of Cash, Bundlers of Donations; Plodding, triangulating, setting norms, Party of the Big Tent: They tell me you are ineffective and I believe them, for I have seen your broken promises and platform planks tossed aside. They … Read More