By David Swanson
I lack patience. I admit it. There's my confession. I couldn't sit through the Pope’s slow and plodding and polite speech to Congress, waiting for him to say something against the primary thing that body does and spends our money on. But finally he got there.

By David Swanson
A case can be made that democracy worked in this month's U.S. midterm elections, while representative democracy failed miserably.