Saturday, May 18, 2024

Can Congress Really Use Insider Information to Trade Stock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HXpLyg-iVg Members of Congress use privileged information to make money on the stock market, while they’re supposed...

Winners and Losers in Our New Media Moment

The winners of the latest version of the news and election cycle won’t be the American people or the electoral system or a deeper knowledge of how our world works.

Why are there 40 million people in the US living below

If change can be achieved, it should be a combination of substantial taxes on those with wealth, and programs that offer essential elements of a good life to all in the society.

How to Short-circuit Trump’s Lying Noise Machine

Ultimate bunker buster against Trumpism is to demolish his fraudulent magic show, not let him flee when his incompetence is scrutinized. Trump exemplifies the “triumph of the will” school in which he’s the special, self-appointed strongman destined to save the world by ruling it. The great vulnerability is his empty, amoral magic shell game has neither hidden bean, nor relevance to the world outside his selfish bubble. And though pathological, he's not an effective political liar.

9 conservative myths about corporations

Capitalism and corporations are only as good as we design the system to be.

The elites won’t save us

We are in the twilight stages of the rolling corporate coup d’état begun four decades ago.

A Deere in the spotlight

Deere's licensing scheme is an artificial, corporate-imposed, private "law" that will squeeze independent shops out of business.

VIDEO: How Likely Are the Top 10 GOP Presidential Candidates to Drag Us Into...

Juan Cole reviews the 10 GOP presidential candidates on one key issue—how likely they are to drag us into another war. Here are the individual answers to that pertinent question.

California briefly runs on 97% renewable energy, showing a future in which oil and...

If anyone is listening, what we really need is national financial instruments allowing families to pay off solar panels over time.
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What if everyone voted?

Look what we could achieve if everyone showed up on voting day.