Thursday, May 2, 2024

This Trump hire is hazardous to your health (and not just your Medicare)

With this choice, Trump's made it clear that his campaign was a lie.

The huge costs of Trump energy plans

If Trump is able to reverse state and local bans on fracking, he will in effect be giving oil and gas companies the right to pollute people's farms and drinking water.

The new founder, brought to you by the Koch Brothers

Koch Kollege for right-wing social engineers is peddling a status quo agenda of corporate elitism and trickle-down ideology.

Feeling out the Bern, postelection

Bernie Sanders has spent his life fighting for progressive causes. As the world braces for the Trump presidency, Sanders shows no signs of slowing down.

Who will lead the anti-Trump resistance?

Figures like Sanders, Ellison, and Elizabeth Warren embody both the ideas and the integrity Democrats will need to mobilize their base and win back lost voters.

We don’t need Washington to fix bloated CEO pay

There are clear channels that people can use to put downward pressure on the pay of those at the top in both the corporate and noncorporate sector that don’t require going through Washington.

Conspiracy theorist in chief: Trump lie about 2 million illegal votes is only the...

Trump’s conspiracy theories were so attractive that they won him the election. They could even win him a second.

Trump’s con exposes ‘change-at-any-price’ delusions

“Change” is neither easy nor free and that makes Trumpism, without vetted programs, no more than empty rhetoric. Who but the Trumpster makes 282 unrealistic campaign pledges?

The slow, painful death of the TPP

Did the decision by proponents of the TPP to push ahead with their deal almost certainly cost Hillary Clinton the election?

Waiting for the barbarians

There will be rebels. They will live in the shadows. The state will have little tolerance of them. They will be our hope.