Tag: billionaires

he New York Times published an editorial comment on its front page in January 2019, provocatively entitled “abolish billionaires.” The editorial raised a serious question: what...

If Trump is not made stand-in for heartless Robber Barons, progressives will have squandered our greatest opportunity to name this era: Trump’s Age of Corruption.

Counting up the number of billionaires in a nation can give us a vivid anecdotal sense of how concentrated a nation’s wealth has become.

The rich determine which bitter pill to shove down the throats of the 99 percent.

Meanwhile, 18.5 million Americans live in extreme poverty and "5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty."

The richest, most powerful, most privileged people in our land are intentionally savaging the well-being of America's majority and aggressively suppressing the democratic rights that make America, America.

It’s time to “strike back” – not against wealthy individuals, but against oligarchy itself.

Americans may be in for a long fall “health-wise” and “economy-wise.”

While we're mesmerized by Trump, shady groups are pushing corporate-friendly legislation in statehouses all over the country.

It is the bending of Trump by the hands of the poisonously greedy Brothers Koch that brings the fascist corporatist state one day closer.