Corporate Welfare in California
Right now, a grassroots movement is growing of Californians determined to reform this broken commercial property tax system, and who know California needs more stable funding for its schools, libraries, roads, and communities.
Why the Sharing Economy Is Harming Workers – And What Must Be Done
In a sharing economy all economic risk is shifted onto workers. Uncertainty is hard on everyone - it's time to shift to a more secure economy.
The ‘iEverything’ and the Redistributional Imperative
The newest business model using new technologies isn't just labor-replacing, it's knowledge-replacing. As the ratio of producers to customers continues to plummet, the profits go to an ever-smaller circle of executives and owner-investors.
When Barbara Lee doesn’t speak for me
Lee now seems to have cast aside her beliefs expressed in her historic 2001 speech.
Green New Deal “climate kids” should hijack the impeachment conversation
"If Democrats are unwilling to do the right thing and assist at that suicide, today’s real grownups—you climate kids—must embarrass them into doing so."
The more Joe Biden stumbles, the more corporate democrats freak out
The Democratic Party’s most powerful donors are running out of options in the presidential race. Their warhorse Joe Biden is stumbling, while...
From Moscow to Washington, the barbarism and hypocrisy don’t justify each other
Our real enemy is war.
The rampage of reckless individualism matches climate change as a global threat
Reckless individualism delivers just as many body blows to collective freedom as fascism, communism or fundamentalism.
The longer Trump lasts, the greater the damage, the more degraded is America. Is...
No politician survives endless, humiliating court cases (results or timing aside), and no third-rate PT Barnum fools more than a shrinking minority over time.
Writing History Before It Happens
With an emphasis on the U.S. national security state and its follies, Tom Engelhardt explores nine repeat headlines, each a "surefire" news story guaranteed to appear sometime in the U.S. news stream between June 2015 and the unknown future.