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"All the leaves are brown and the sky is gray, California streaming on such a winter's day". Seems like yesterday the entire country was sweltering in wicked summer heat with LA being the most Icelandic spot in the nation.

"Engelhardt's new book, "The American Way of War," explores the U.S.'s jaw-dropping transformation into a global military empire. "

The bill would cut the DoD's budget and use that money to make the first $35,000 each American earns tax-free.

Crazy views about homeownership are helping the very bankers who screwed us in the first place.

Because the blockade of Gaza itself violates international law, Israel committed an illegal act of war attacking the convoy, regardless of who attacked whom first.

When Democrats use conservative language to promote their agenda, it ultimately creates more support for Republicans.

America's role in the world should not be to prescribe some specific world order or police the planet by force of arms. It's to save itself.

"Assange: "In order to make any just decision you need to know and understand what abuses or plans for abuses are occurring." "

At Netroots Nation, Elizabeth Warren spoke about how to make the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau help protect the U.S. economy.

We have to drive the debate about our economic priorities and not get distracted by the opposition.

The hysteria over a planned Islamic community center in downtown Manhattan is only the tip of the iceberg.

"Here's the real point: fundamentalist religion OF ALL KINDS - Muslim, Christian, Hindu, whatever, is the enemy of peace and progress. "

Extending Bush's tax cuts for the rich over the next decades is just a terrible idea, and will do nothing to stimulate the economy.

What if anything is the potential contribution of web-based "social networking" to social movements and social change?

Even conservatives in Europe are scratching their heads over their transatlantic allies who appear to hate the idea of cheaper, universal health care.

You can feel it. Or maybe you can't. It doesn't matter whether you feel it or not. It's happening. The story of the United States of America as we know it -- not merely as the world's dominant superpower, but as a discrete political, economic, and geographic entity -- is drawing to a close due to a convergence of emerging economic, environmental, and political crises. Nothing lasts forever, empires least of all. And this one, which only began to expand in earnest circa the year 1900, doesn't feel like it has the staying power of ancient Rome. Not at all.

The demise of the United States as the global superpower could come far more quickly than anyone imagines.