Time to Recover Productivity Gains Our Bosses Have Expropriated for Decades
If we can’t make the bosses pay more to their employees, the least we can do is make the them pay more into those workers’ Social Security fund. How to accomplish that? Just raise just the employer share of the payroll tax.
Can we stop pretending now?
Donald Trump is a bullshit artist of the first order. Yet all art reflects the time in which it’s produced and Trump’s art is no exception.
VIDEO: With a Record Backing Coups, Secret War and Genocide, Is Kissinger an Elder...
Democracy Now speaks with Greg Grandin, author of the new book, "Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman," who discusses Henry Kissinger longstanding influence on the national security state.
Promises kept? Joe Biden’s first year at home and abroad
When President Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election was followed by the election of two Democratic senators in Georgia, it looked...
How wealthy have our super wealthy become?
It turns out we know far less, by contrast, about Americans who live amid great wealth.
Ideas from hell: The far right’s weaponized conspiracy theories
Since the end of April, there have been three mass shootings that can be directly tied to white nationalism. The victims of...
Bernie Sanders’ Manhattan project: The game-changing Green New Deal
The selfish and greedy elites of the US Establishment will attempt to kill this plan just in the same way that they are killing the planet.
Here’s how Trump transferred wealth to his son while avoiding the usual taxes
Donald Trump sold two condos to Eric in April 2016 at a steep discount. But he doesn’t appear to be on the hook for gift taxes.
Trump’s Tall Tax Tales
Donald is falsely framing his economic policies as good for working families, when he's really just protecting his own wealth.
Only as an irate “F-ck You” does the mystery clear: why Trump fiddled for...
How well America survives Trumpism depends on how well current efforts establish for all time who Trump was and what he remains.