How do we protect the soul of democracy against bad theology in service of an imperial state?

The fault line in American history is now a dividing line in the election and it's changing the conversation.

I'm the front man, I'm the man on camera, but there's a whole team beyond me.

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.

The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the rule-making machinery in Washington and state capitals.

Democracy works when people claim it as their own

Big money and big business, corporations and commerce, are again the undisputed overlords of politics and government. The White House, the Congress and, increasingly, the judiciary, reflect their interests. We appear to have a government run by remote control from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute. To hell with everyone else.