Credit: Al Habtoor Research Centre The state of the US economy is hard to get a grip on these days , even with the statistics often pondered over by economists and journalists. The stock market is way up (although it’s mostly powered by a few large corporations), and unemployment is holding steady (although that … Read more
I miss Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I miss their steadiness and competence. I miss their economy. I miss that they left the country better off when they founded it. I miss their following the Constitution and Pro Democracy leadership. I miss them working for the American People and not themselves. I am fairly sure … Read more
Electoral campaigns announced their financial reports for the first quarter of 2026 in early April. In our district, JoAnna Mendoza’s campaign raised $2,440,651. Juan Ciscomani’s campaign raised $1,138,649. It seemed to us that our representative might be worried about his electoral prospects. We were not surprised by what we heard next. On April 13th, Tucson … Read more
On Earth Day yesterday, one of Arizona’s Representatives and Senators, Yassamin Ansari and Mark Kelly, condemned corporatist Donald Trump and MAGA Congressional Republicans for instituting anti-environmental and anti-sustainability policies designed to turn the clock back on clean energy projects while exploiting and ravaging the resources on public lands and national parks. In a video released … Read more
In 1952, with Dwight Eisenhower at the head of the ticket and McCarthyism in its popular phase, Republicans ran on a simple slogan attacking the Truman Administration on three words: Korea (while the war was going on and Truman had fired conservative darling Douglas MacArthur), Communism, and Corruption. While most historians concede that the popular … Read more