From wind farm bans to coal expansion: Trump’s fossil fuel agenda threatens climate progress
The burning of fossil fuels is the leading cause of climate change, but Trump has repeatedly called climate change a “hoax.”
A fish called Bannon
The White House chief strategist may think he knows what he's doing, but bluster isn't enough to get what he wants – or is it?
Filling in the magic asterisk: The Republican tax reform proposal
We might want to tell Speaker Ryan to keep his magic asterisks and leave the tax rates for the rich alone.
The triumphant politics of surfaces, blockading real knowledge, feeding victimhood, outlawry and corruption
The Trump mania for gold-veneer, pompous arches or mammoth ballrooms speaks to his surface obsession, with crass showiness allergic to democratic values, nailed with this brilliant take-down “Trump’s Dictator Chic.”
Trans Pacific Trickle-Down Economics
If we allow the Trans-Pacific Partnership to pass, big corporations and Wall Street will be the only ones who will benefit. The idea that trickle-down economics will occur if this bill passes is a myth.
Populism is not about mobs, anti-government rants or opinion polls
It's necessary to restate the solid principles of populism and reassert its true spirit.
How we can get Walmart’s $237-million-man to pay his own freight
Pay-ratio taxes just might help bring that “collective happiness” a little closer.
Congress should be ready to arrest Attorney General Barr if he defies subpoena
If Congress cannot question the people who are making policy, or obtain critical documents, Congress cannot function as a coequal branch of government.
Republicans: “see no evil, hear no evil,” even when it is right in front...
The Republicans in Congress saw exactly what Trump was doing and should have strongly objected to such an action but they saw no evil, heard no evil on his part.
Souring Chicago’s Sweet Treat
If its executives are so inept that they can't find an honest way to fill a $46-million hole, they should dock the pay of their top three executives by that amount.