America’s military budget is more than just numbers on a page—it’s a reflection of the priorities that shape our society.

Some 2400 years ago, Aristotle observed in The Politics: ...

Neil A. Abrams writes on corruption, democracy, the rule of law, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia. You can find his work at The Detox with Neil Abrams .

As the world’s top billionaire rummages through the inner workings of its mightiest state, the influence of America’s ...

My journey into the realm of people’s history began during my teenage years when I first read Howard Zinn’s A People’s ...

I hate cruelty. I've hated it all my life. Still, I'm fascinated by it. I have always wondered how any person could deliberately harm another human being or animal and not feel terrible about it. As ...

Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has aggressively moved to shrink the federal government. His administration ...

An expanding body of research highlights the rising importance of class in arrests and incarceration in the United States. This research shouldn’t be read ...

Mainstream media detailed Trump’s multiple false and misleading claims but ignored how that was a deliberate strategy for demolishing our democratic ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on March 20, 2025, that calls for closing the U.S. Department of Education. The president needs ...

Though Donald Trump has sought to eradicate it from government, business, and education, DEI continues to haunt him. Judges have resisted his efforts to ...

Suppose someone proposed to tax the country $500 billion a year — which comes to $4,000 per household annually, and more than $6 trillion if we do the ...