Tuesday, June 2, 2026

TrumpCare dies, XL flies and the secret winner is…

It is the bending of Trump by the hands of the poisonously greedy Brothers Koch that brings the fascist corporatist state one day closer.

In Trump’s America, your privacy is for sale

In Donald Trump's America, the information isn't stolen by hackers in the dark of night. It is taken with the government's blessing.

Trump’s fog machine

Trump figures that at some point the murk will seem too complicated and too partisan. Could he get away with it?

Poetry: 4 12-liners for political times

It never occurs to us that we've come to appear much like the devils that we ourselves fear.

Trumpcare was for CEOs, not patients

Buried in Paul Ryan's failed replacement for Obamacare was a huge handout to overpaid health insurance CEOs.

Why this isn’t the time for a public option or Medicare for some

What is the real purpose of a public option or lowering the age of Medicare when neither is an effective nor a lasting solution?

No, Paul, it wasn’t because of “growing pains”

America and the rest of the world must hold our collective breath, hoping that the next elections – the midterms of 2018 and then the presidential election of 2020 – set things right.

Trade denialism continues: Trade really did kill manufacturing jobs

This level of dishonesty separates trade out from most other areas of public debate.

The feuding kleptocrats

The kleptocrats, in the end, have only one real enemy: us.