Sunday, March 22, 2026

Tag: Election 2016

Rigged!

The Billionaire Oligarchs Don’t Give Out Bread Anymore, but They Gleefully...

Oligarchs keep the mind of the public off important crises while making money off of higher viewership of their diverting media.

Hillary Clinton, Paul Ryan, and the Crisis of American Capitalism

In all respects, the American political economy has become radically imbalanced.

The Old Debt and Entitlement Charade

You won’t hear this story in the debate questions. Debate sponsors only push their own agendas.

Sheriff Openly Calls for Riots as Trump Says Election is ‘Rigged’

David Clarke tweeted that it’s “pitchforks and torches time.”

The Must Watch Michelle Obama Speech Everyone Is Talking About

“I can’t believe that I’m saying that a candidate for president of the United States has bragged about sexually assaulting women."

A Tale of Two Leaks

While elites prepare to celebrate yet another victory for neoliberalism, dissent is growing on the margins and these voices will not be silenced, regardless of who’s in the White House.

The $1 Billion Election No One Is Noticing

While most media attention is on the presidential circus, candidates for statewide and local offices have raked in massive amounts of campaign donations.

We Interrupt This Trump Soap Opera for a Discussion of 2016...

A historian of American political history and culture reflects on what broke the campaign.

Trump the Arsonist

Whatever happens in November, the forecast is for more stormy weather ahead.

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Pentagon seeks $200 billion for Iran war as costs surge and Congress pushes back

Lawmakers question the scale, legality, and strategy of a massive funding request as troop deployments expand and the conflict shows signs of escalation.

Balanced budget amendment would put Social Security, Medicare, and core public services on the...

The proposal would make revenue increases extraordinarily difficult while allowing tax cuts to pass more easily, shifting pressure onto widely used federal programs.

The Paris Prelude: Why the US and China are moving toward a Cold Peace

Nuanced engagement is an improvement over chaotic confrontation.

DNC approach to Israel is political malpractice and moral failure

On no issue is that more apparent than the DNC’s insistence on treating Israel as above serious reproach.

Scale raises the ceiling, but fiscal foundations determine whether autocracy or democracy prevails

The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.