Sunday, June 21, 2026

What is the major issue in the 2020 election?

"Do the wealthy contend that their excess wealth is needed by the economy?"

Close the audit gap

Millionaires who skip their taxes should get audited, not the working poor. Closing that gap isn’t just fair — it’s essential to protect our democracy.

The Fraud of the New ‘Family-Friendly’ Work

The new family-friendly policies seem ideally timed, but they apply only to a tiny group considered “talent”—highly educated and in high demand— to help to recruit and keep them. Let's not celebrate this new era just yet.

Sedition caucus mimics Trump’s worst sin: Demolition of content—legal, moral, democratic or electoral

The party of primitive deplorables, thinking it too could play with fire, is facing an outraged majority. Too bad it took so long.

How Tacky Can the Golden Arches Get?

McDonald's new ad campaign is designed to link the corporate brand to the healing power of love. Is this McDonald's newest idea to help reverse declining sales: more "Lovin?" Just ask protesting workers about the "love" they're getting from McDonald's.

Brand loyalties dominate our life choices—but party brands are hardly created equal

Sorry, but a convicted scoundrel struggling to stay out of jail only to become a fascist commando sounds like a miracle way to lose.

A reformist program on immigration (or what Harris might have said)

A radical program would embrace the freedom to migrate as universal and therefore reorient the global location of investment to serve that freedom both domestically and internationally.

How does Santos the phony phony differ from Trump the genuine phony?

Imitating Trump’s illusion of invulnerability does not protect one against self-destruction.

How Donald Trump’s failures turned Dallas into a COVID-19 hotspot

Yet Trump not only failed to channel existing stimulus funds to hard-hit areas like Dallas but also refused to use his clout to push an acceptable local government aid package through Congress.