Politics

"This is what cruelty looks like."

The irony is obvious - taking money from the taxpaying public to destroy a vital public institution that, unlike charter schools, must take all comers.

This crisis of care could be prevented if Congress were to take bold action to fund human infrastructure.

How extraordinary that the glaring oppression of private property remains the invisible elephant in the room. Who doubts how many huge “private” fortunes accumulate by passing huge liabilities from “externalities” (pollution, waste, disease, ruinous landscapes) onto public shoulders? Hold manufacturing liabilities to impeccable business logic, not what lobbyist influence-peddling frees them to get away with. How long can the commons survive when our most affluent free-loaders are not only “too big to fail” but “too immune to pay their own way”?

The women held open the elevator door, telling Flake, through their tears, that he was dismissing their pain.

Japan has found a way to write off its national debt without creating inflation. Why can’t we do that?

“It’s not our student debt—but we still want Biden to forgive it.”

Don’t fall for it. Trump’s binge of deregulation is just another form of trickle-down economics.

America’s Snopes-like elites have no external or internal constraints. They are barbarians. We will remove them from power or enter a new dark age.

And no excuses, okay? We’ve been given fair warning.