Jimmy Kimmel tonight got uproarious laughter from his audience when he mocked the lackluster announcement by the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that they have now moved the second hand of their Doomsday Clock to within 90 seconds of midnight (destruction of our civilization by nuclear war or…
BY ANDREW BACEVICH Reprinted with permission from TomDispatch.com Dear Mr. President: I send greetings from the other side — and no, I don’t mean the other side of the aisle. I refer to the place where old politicians go to make amends for their sins. Apart from our shared Catholicism and affinity for…
Covid may soon be the least of our worries By Thom Hartmann Reprinted by permission of the author As more Americans are getting vaccinated, there’s a sense of relief washing over the country that’s almost giddy. But we’re not out of the Covid woods yet, and, in some ways, it’s distracted us from a…