Addressing redeemable Trumpers: Offsetting the Blarney, upping midterm pressure
The electoral field, thanks to history’s most vulnerable president, is wide open – handing the left a great opportunity for a stunning harvest.
How badly will Trump trash the GOP? Truly, ‘Everything he touches dies.’
With the inevitability of Greek tragedy, Trump’s fate is not for me a mystery: he will go down, and hard, and the only question that remains: will the hijacked Republican follow suit?
America at the Rubicon
A government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich.
How to fix a broken Supreme Court
The Supreme Court derives its strength not from the use of force or political power, but from the trust of the people.
The “People’s Fed” and the Oracles of Jackson Hole
As long as the Fed’s organizational culture is dominated by the financial sector, it cannot reflect the American people’s needs, hopes and values.
Bill Gates is clueless on the economy
Gates’ notion that rapid productivity growth will lead to large-scale unemployment is contradicted by both history and theory.
Trump’s bonkers budget
Trump’s spending and tax priorities are not in the best interest of most Americans.
What happens when bad guys win—without direct counter-punches except defiance and litigation?
If we don’t learn from failure, do we then not forfeit the “sapiens” (wisdom, intelligence) that in the end allegedly sets our species apart?
A Perfect Portrait of Corporate Crime
Martin Winterkorn, VW’s disgraced CEO, was forced to resign after the auto maker's eco-friendly diesel cars actually polluted the air more than allowed by law. Finally, a CEO must pay the consequences for betraying consumers and the environment?
The death of the republic
The relationship between the state and the citizen who is watched constantly is one of master and slave.