Family ties leave taxpayers on hook for Eric Trump’s $100,000 business trip
“The president is now sending his emissaries, his sons, out to line his own pockets, and he’s subsidizing that activity with taxpayer dollars.”
Crypto and the far right
Trump promised to make the United States the cryptocurrency capital of the world. He also talked about creating a strategic reserve of Bitcoin.
Rally against the specter of totalitarianism
When ideas circulate in an open source environment, they gather strength.
Trump’s HHS pick Alex Azar is the worst pharma bro of all
Azar is a catastrophically bad choice for the government’s top health care job.
Trickle-down economics doesn’t work but build-up does—is Biden listening?
Trickle-down economics is a cruel hoax. The benefits of build-up economics are real.
Spin Shift on Bernie: The Escalating Media Assault
Donald Trump is to Bernie Sanders as Archie Bunker is to Jon Stewart.
The Dutch city that offered refugees a permanent home
When 500 refugees arrived in their community, residents of Zaandam were wary. But by the time the newcomers could apply for residency status in Europe, neighbors didn’t want them to leave.
Gut check on the guttiest, nuttiest president. Bar none
We have words for those who elevate internal, non-logical feelings over mind – contrary to what that vast conspiracy of humanity calls consensual knowledge: delusional, hustlers, deceivers, crack pots or people of bad faith.
UK Oil Companies Set to Drill in the Arctic
The rush comes after the Foreign Office last year talked up the opportunities for British business of a melting Arctic.
GOP “health” bill: Death, disaster and Gilded Age greed
The Republicans want to give us less and make us think it’s more. It’s time to tell them we’ve had enough.