Turkish Democracy Dying

It is unfortunate the people of Turkey have their own version of Donald Trump, and his name is Recep Erdogan. Last week an alleged, "coup" by some Army officers and men, attempted a bungled effort to overthrow the strongman who wants to make Turkey Great Again.

Trump’s Complete Reversal On Romney’s Tax Returns

Mitt Romney, flanked by Donald Trump, speaks at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012, where Trump endorsed Romney. In an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Donald Trump blames Mitt Romney's 2012 loss to Barack Obama on Romney's decision to release his tax returns.

Jeff St. Clair’s impressionistic account of the Democratic Convnetion

Editor's Note: Now don't go jumping to the conclusion that I agree with Jeff St. Clair's perspective just because I've posted it here. As I repeatedly say, we want a variety of perspectives on the elections on our website, and welcome yours if it's original, lively, says something most of our readers will not have likely heard in the mainstream media, and is smart.

Libertarian Gary Johnson Keeps Fighting to Join the Presidential Debates

Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party's nominee for president, has made no secret of his desire to be on stage with Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton in the upcoming presidential debates . " Our America Initiative ," an arm of the Libertarian Party, filed a lawsuit last September against the Commission on Presidential Debates, challenging its "15 percent threshold."

One State Is Clumsily Trying To Include Minorities In The Pot Legalization Boom

Marijuana legalization has moved from the political fringe to the national mainstream at breakneck speed, minting a whole new class of legal weed millionaires as states to break away from federal prohibition of cannabis. But as the repression and violence of drug war black markets give way to a legitimate economic boom, some states are still trying to work out who exactly may reap the financial opportunities.

Donald Jr. Attacks Clinton Co-Chair For Hinting At Putin-Trump Collusion

In a rare moment of levity, Jake Tapper recalls DrA1 4mpenfA1 4hrer's summary of his RNC performance as 'It was the Trump of times, it was the Trump of times,' a subtle dig at the narcissism we've grown so accustomed to, during this campaign. On Zakaria's GPS , also on CNN, Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens said that the address made him feel like he was watching a Monty Python sketch of the Nuremberg Rally.

It Isn’t A Superpower

This isn't a knock on Kaine, and by accounts he actually does actually speak decent Spanis unlike most of the politicians our press rapturously hails as being bilingual . Still it's ridiculous when having a facility with a second language is seen as some sort of superpower, especially one which is so amazing that bilingual immigrants and their children and grandchildren will be really really impressed.

Elizabeth Warren: ‘the nastiest, most divisive convention in half a century’

Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, which is frightening.We must make sure his hateful rhetoric does not even come close... Sign if you agree: Presidents do not stop working in the final year of their term. Neither should the Senate.

He Did Everything Right

Charles Kinsey, a behavioral therapist who was trying to help an autistic patient who had wandered away from a group home, did everything right when confronted by cops with guns drawn. He got shot anyway: Luckily, Mr. Kinsey is expected to make a full recovery.

Humans Are Playing High-Risk Ecological Roulette

Humans have reduced biodiversity - the teeming variety of plant and animal life that competes and co-operates in every ecosystem - to below safe levels across more than 58% of the planet's land surface . This is ultimately bad news for human food security because biological diversity underwrites what naturalists call the resilient ecosystem services on which humans and all higher animals depend - crop pollination and pest control, nutrient decomposition and recycling, water and air purification - and because that 58% of the terrestrial planet is home to 71% of all humans, That humans are reducing biodiversity - and at a cost to the disturbed ecosystems - is not news.