Across America, the fastest-growing category of new jobs is gig work—contract, part-time, temp, self-employed and freelance. Estimates vary but it's safe to say almost a quarter of American workers are now gig workers. The jobs problem today isn't just stagnant wages. It's also uncertain incomes. A downturn in demand, change...
John Bolton hates the governments of Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua—calling them the “troika of tyranny” and is determined to use his time as National Security Advisor to eliminate the vestiges of socialism in our hemisphere. Furious that he has been unable to successfully orchestrate a coup in Venezuela, Bolton is...
This country’s propensity for believing that its ability to rain hellfire from the sky provides a winning methodology for its wars has proven to be a fantasy of our age. Whether in Korea in the early 1950s, Vietnam in the 1960s, or more recently in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, the...
The drive to narrow the focus of education by reducing it to test-taking focused almost exclusively on literacy and mathematics, things that are easily measured, while pushing aside the more uncomfortable disciplines like art, philosophy, and the humanities has accelerated over the past couple decades. The comfortable are disturbed by...
Trump said at a news conference in Japan, “We aren’t looking for regime change – I just want to make that clear. We are looking for no nuclear weapons." But Trump breached the treaty the US and other members of the UN Security Council signed with Iran in 2015, which...
So why have so many outlets and people turned against Assange and WikiLeaks? Because it turned out he wasn’t revealing only repressive Arab regimes. He also revealed U.S.-backed coups and war crimes around the world. He exposed the criminality and villainy of the American ruling elite. You won’t see the...
From 1946 to 2000, the Russians -- the Soviet Union until 1991 -- engaged in a staggering 36 “partisan election interventions” globally. The United States took the crown with 81 interventions! The two Cold War superpowers together meddled in approximately “one of every nine competitive elections" in that era in...
CEOs of ExxonMobil such as Lee Raymond or Rex Tillerson or currently Darren Woods are banal in their evil. But they are much worse in the practical effect of their evil than Hitler or Pol Pot or any of the other genocidal maniacs we’ve seen in the past century. They...
A federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning back to jail for refusing to testify before a secretive grand jury and imposed a $500 fine for every day she is in custody after 30 days. After 60 days, the fine will increase to $1,000 per day.
Iran is three times the size and population as Iraq and has a modern military force with missiles capable of reaching U.S. bases, navy ships, and troop concentrations up to 1,200 miles away. A war would effectively close shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, through which 40 percent of the...