Sunday, July 26, 2026

What should a CEO earn?

Capitalism is not economics. It is cronyism.

The wealth supremacists

The For the People Act targets both white supremacists and wealth supremacists, which is why it’s hugely popular with the public but is running into roadblocks even among Senate Democrats.

Florida wants to make ex-felons pay to vote

"They cannot legally affix a price tag to someone's right to vote."

Clues from history: Why Trump’s presidency is over

Many state governments over the years have reached exactly this point of racial toxicity – and crumbled.

Sanders threatens to demand stronger conditions on $500 billion ‘corporate welfare fund’ if GOP...

“It would be an outrage to prevent working-class Americans to receive the emergency unemployment assistance included in this legislation.”

Russia is from Mars, Ukraine is from Venus

Russia is acting like an abusive husband in this gendered conflict.

GOP’s ‘fiscal vandalism and political sabotage’ prompts second-ever US credit downgrade

"The debt ceiling was a bad idea when it was first put in place, and it has become the worst idea as the Republicans have figured out how to weaponize it."

Climate denying Trump administration rebrands fossil fuels as ‘freedom gas’

“After two years spent unraveling the policies of his predecessors, Mr. Trump and his political appointees are launching a new assault.”

Chicago’s Taxpayer-Funded Ode to Robber Barons

Even though George Pullman was a feudalistic 19th-century profiteer, he considered himself a beneficent employer as he suppressed the wages of his factory workers. In current times, is our tax money going to finance a monument for his greed?