Trump’s War on Seven Decades of Arms Control and Disarmament

Melvin Goodman CounterPunch
Workers cut launch tubes from a nuclear missile submarine.
President Trump has undermined a US arms control regime developed over seven decades by successive US administrations. He is seeking to reverse important steps towards disarmament and arms control taken by every US president from Eisenhower to Obama.

Trump is Trying to Destroy the US Postal Service. We Should Expand It

Bhaskar Sunkara The Guardian
Vote-by-mail ballots.
A completely politicized and manufactured crisis threatens to destroy the US Postal Service, our most important, successful and trusted institution by any measure. While the Trump Administration seeks to destroy it we must embrace and empower it.

A Fragment of the Quilt

Geoffrey Philp Rattle
“After living 60 years…as a Black man from Jamaica,” writes poet Geoffrey Philp, “a DNA test … [revealed} my Jewish ancestry. I am astounded by the endurance of Nazi propaganda and the need for constant vigilance.”

What Should Replace Confederate Statues?

Christian K. Anderson The Conversation
As part of America’s reckoning with its oppressive past, the nation now faces the question not just of what statues and other images should be taken down, but what else – if anything – should be put up in their place.

Why I Am Voting No on the Democratic Party Platform

Ro Khanna Common Dreams
History teaches us that sometimes an issue is so great that it should be the yardstick for measuring the wisdom of voting for or against the platform. And Medicare for All is that issue.