Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Roseburg Shooter Mercer Killed One-Third the Annual Gun Death Toll of England and Wales

While the U.S. has the "highest gun ownership in the world and the highest murder rate in the developed world," we have yet to do anything about this ongoing problem. It's time to legislate rationally.

The only fake news that provably threw the election to Trump was not Russian

The Democrats introduced the term “fake news” just days after losing the election.

The Third Way: Share-the-Gains Capitalism

The CEO of Chobani is offering a model that is neither no-lose socialism for the rich nor hyper-capitalism for everyone else. Can this work for America?

Coronavirus shines light on zoos as danger zones for deadly disease transmission between humans...

The pandemic makes one thing clear: We must change our relationship with wildlife or suffer the consequences.

Why the Shake-up at the Democratic National Committee Is Doomed

The DNC has to turn itself – and the Democratic Party – into a grass-roots membership organization, with local and state chapters that play a meaningful role in selecting and supporting candidates.

Why Isn’t Everyone In Favor of Taxing Financial Speculation?

Wall Street Insiders who trade on confidential information unavailable to small investors don’t improve the productivity of financial markets. They just rig the game for themselves.

Amazon buys out Whole Foods Market

The Brave New Future of Amazon's electronic, robotic Whole Foods Market tells us we're living in the corporatized version of "1984."

CEOs got an $800k raise last year. Did you?

Ordinary workers now have to work centuries — or even millennia — to make what their CEOs make in a year.

Bernie Sanders’ Manhattan project: The game-changing Green New Deal

The selfish and greedy elites of the US Establishment will attempt to kill this plan just in the same way that they are killing the planet.