6 charts shows key role firearms makers play in America’s gun culture
The overall picture suggests that a marketing change fueled an increased demand for more lethal weapons, which in turn has fostered a change in gun culture.
CPAC goes to Hungary
CPAC Hungary shows that a kind of far right international is forming.
Apologist for Tucker Carlson’s racism: Glenn Greenwald
These vehement defenses of the most influential media purveyor of the racist “replacement” theory are destructive efforts to launder hate by a once-admirable journalist.
Why Michigan public school parents might be too strong of a match for Betsy...
Parents in DeVos’s backyard tell right-wing radicals, “No thank you to divisive, partisan agendas in schools.”
The impediment to productivity growth: Waste that makes some people rich
In principle we want as few people employed in the health insurance industry as possible, we want people to be able to get health care, not to have insurers block their path.
Lift the Supreme Court’s veil of secrecy
These nine individuals make decisions that affect every American. Why should they get to do it secretly?
One-stop fix to the election rejection scam: Demand candidates must accept the ...
If we don’t stop this scourge of election rejection, then the future (and innate rights) of citizen voting are bleak
In politics, money will always talk. Unless…
In an unequal society, a society dominated by concentrated wealth, democracy will always be “damnably difficult.”
‘Tax the Rich,’ say millionaire activists protesting at Davos amid record wealth, inequality
"Any millionaire who has sense enough to see that our current economic model is failing will support these protests."
The ‘fog’ of democracy
the super rich who run corporate America AKA This Empire use the airwaves and media in general to push their right wing agenda. Sad.