Saturday, April 27, 2024

“Enemies foreign and domestic”

As a nation, as a people, Americans must come to grips with what is underway and decide what kind of country this is and what it is going to become before the dystopian tide overwhelms us.

Non-Candidates for President

Corporations and billionaires are able to fund their favorite presidential hopeful campaigns in order to have their candidate repeatedly exposed to the U.S. people. The Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has resulted in this unfair way of campaigning.

Workers matter and government works: Eight lessons from the pandemic

Here are some lessons we’ve learned from it.

The 100 largest low-wage employers have spent $341 billion on stock buybacks since 2020

And yet top executives seem to have little trouble finding resources for enriching themselves and wealthy shareholders.

Why Manafort and Cohen thought they’d get away with it

It takes a special counsel to actually catch white-collar criminals.

What BP’s Decision to Abandon the Great Australian Bight Says About the Future of...

The reality is that there are fundamental structural problems with BP’s and other oil majors’ growth-led business model.

Why is Biden’s foreign policy so…conventional?

America is back--to the same old, same old.

Two Iraqi peace activists confront a Trumpian world

As the Trump administration weighs war, Iraqis prepare a carnival for peace.
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Robert Mueller testimony disappoints democrats who bet on special counsel to help sink trump

Special counsel Robert Mueller gave his much-anticipated testimony on Capitol Hill Wednesday, where he spoke for the first time about his investigation...