Trump Like Sanders? Hardly. More Polar Opposites in Mindsets, Values & Proposals
Similar at heart? Parallel in the most important ways? Sanders stands for all the Trump hates. And vice versa. Trump could be the 1% poster child that drives Sanders' dramatic anti-elitist, anti-inequality, anti-climate change denial movement. A true challenger to the status quo (party and nation) and the oligarchic "establishment" that runs this country, Sanders is more polar opposite to Trump than alleged first cousin.
It’s time we ask our Senators to take immediate action and protect the vote.
Just when we need it more than ever, Compromise is more elusive than ever.
The misadventures of ‘tariff man’
For Donald Trump, tariffs are a substitute for diplomacy, just as harassment in his personal life is a substitute for normal human interaction.
What kind of FBI do we want after Comey?
What kind of FBI should progressive activists support? What kind of leader should it have?
America’s biggest economic problem isn’t China
Xi Jinping might possibly agree this weekend when he meets Donald Trump on further steps to bring down China’s trade imbalance with...
Trump’s New Super PAC Attack Dog
Top donor of 'Rebuilding America Now' is developer Geoffrey Palmer.
If wage growth is driving inflation, why is workers’ share of income falling?
Perhaps some economists can tell a story where rapid wage growth is driving inflation even as the wage share of income is falling, but I’m not that good an economist.
Senate Dems won’t protect abortion rights, but vote unanimously to protect justices from protests
"One problem with the idea that Democrats will benefit from a backlash to Roe being overturned is that the party leadership don’t seem to like the idea of there being a backlash to Roe being overturned."
Global elites in Davos pretend to care about inequality
Billionaires and the politicians who enable their wealth gathered for several days at a luxury resort in Switzerland to offer their puzzled concerns about why they keep getting richer at everyone else’s expense.
This is the drilling method for most US oil but regulators offer almost no...
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR), an under-regulated drilling method that has been around for over a century and could be threatening drinking water sources.