Tell the Truth about Bernie’s Health Care Stand
During the 1993 quest for a health care plan, Secretary Clinton sent Sanders an autographed picture of the two of them, wishing him the best and thanking the senator “for your commitment to real health care access for all Americans.”
Americans have been bilked out of billions during the pandemic from cynical profiteers
Unless America addresses runaway income inequality and begins protecting the most vulnerable in society, the next pandemic will hit the nation even harder.
Election, legal disasters, surging Covid cases, economy stumbling: Just “too much winning”
Major irony: the perceived, 2016 “change” candidate was and is utterly incapable of change.
Rightwing populism in a time of crisis
When the smoke clears, let’s hope the scales fall from the eyes of their supporters and the only recently growing phenomenon of rightwing, anti-science populism is consigned to the dustbin of history, where it belongs.
“The Big Short” and Bernie’s Plan to Bust Up Wall Street
"To paraphrase philosopher George Santayana, those who cannot remember they were screwed by Wall Street are condemned to be screwed again."
Blurring the lines: Phony leftists and the populist right pipeline
Most of those who consider themselves on the progressive left instinctively understand that they are in an ideological battle with two powerful forces.
The Sleaze, Guilt and Punishment of Don Blankenship
Lord Don has taken a great fall, as he was ousted as CEO in 2010, and then finally, last week, was convicted for the conspiracy that led to the needless deaths of those 29 miners.
Hurricane Matthew Is a Herald of Man-Made Climate Change
All hurricanes in the contemporary world are made worse by the climate change that has already occurred, and will be made yet worse again by more climate science denial.
Crimes of the Trump era (a preview)
The 25/8 news cycle is already rolling, but the looting of America hasn’t really begun.