Super-Rich Donors Turn Our Democracy into Their Plutocracy
There are a few "treacherous" donors who are using wads of cash to pervert American democracy into plutocracy. So who are they trying to buy favors for?
It’s North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, not Trump, who forced the US to the negotiating...
Credit where credit's due.
Flush the TPP
President Barack Obama and the Republicans are united when it comes to so-called free-trade agreements. While Obama has been negotiating the agreements, which increase corporate power, grass-roots activists are organizing against the TPP.
Net neutrality
The biggest loser would be the internet itself, which would be made to surrender its determinedly democratic ethic to the plutocratic rule of corporate profiteers.
Should billionaires exist?
If capitalism were working properly, billionaires would have gone the way of the dodo.
You Must Be Kidding! Adventures in an American World of Frustration
Assassination, previously an illegal act, has become the heart and soul of Washington’s way of life.
The trade deal crusaders: Can they never learn?
The TPP and other next generation trade deals are also about putting in place stronger and longer patent and copyright protections.
The Prison State of America
The "carceral state” we live in will not be reformed through elections, or by appealing to political elites or the courts. We are caught in a prison state and lockdown of American politics.
Why are there fees on everything?
They hide the true cost when you buy a good or service.
There won’t be another Jimmy Breslin, but we need more like him in the...
It's not that good journalists aren't out there, they just don't get published.