The truth behind “self-made” billionaires
Billionaires are not made by rugged individuals. They’re made by policy failures. And a system that rewards wealth over work.
The Right’s grotesque, negative learning curve is steadily demolishing its national brand
For a white nationalist base obsessed with “losing its country” (and dominance) to outsiders and non-whites, won’t chronic, severe political whoppers achieve exactly its worst fear?
Forget the Voting Rights bill: Here’s how to destroy GOP voter suppression
The lesson to be learned here? When you are faced with a massive obstacle, aka, the Republicans in U.S. Senate blocking your way, then you must either go around it, over it, under it, or right through it.
The great Trump contradiction: His rogue individualism vs. choice-denying, fascist rhetoric
Trump is neither disciplined, stable, nor smart enough to be a full-fledged, fascist autocrat, especially if checks and balances hold. The impeachment threat, dicey implementation aside, is...
Why Can’t Our Economy Promote Equality and Shared Prosperity?
"If you're not at the table, you're on the menu." The "Take On Wall Street" campaign intends to put you and me — the People — at the table for a change.
End of “the great game”
The old game is dead. Keep playing it and our civilization is over. Try winning that one.
Right, Trump gangster buffoons can pull off the first ever American coup d’état? Wanna...
Despite scary extremist brouhaha, authoritarian rule by coup won’t come to America because an inept, phony orange impresario waves his shiny baton.
The hidden link between corporate greed and inflation
Don’t fall for the fear mongering about inflation. The real culprit here is corporate power.
Obama’s Trillion-Dollar Nuclear-Arms Train Wreck
The U.S. nuclear arsenal, and all the expense, nuclear waste and immense danger it continuously poses, has received almost no attention in the U.S. presidential debates.
A Trump bombshell quietly dropped last week. And it should shock us all.
Donald Trump’s proto-fascism poses the largest internal threat to American democracy since the Civil War.