When grassroots groups rise up against the corporate establishment to try winning some specific progressive changes for the common good, the odds against them can seem daunting. As an old saying puts it: Where ... Read more...
We might expect that corporate billionaires and Koch-funded Republican right-wingers would be howl-at-the-moon opponents of a wealth tax, Medicare-for-All, and other big, progressive ideas to help improve the c... Read more...
There's a new political army on the march in America: Tromp-tromp-tromp they came, it's the Billionaire Brigade!
It's actually a very small army – only 749 Americans rank as billionaires. But they have a lot... Read more...
Donald Trump's idea of a good farm program seems to be "Hee Haw." On a recent trip to Wisconsin, he drew guffaws from the state's hard-hit dairy farmers by proclaiming that – thanks to his policies – the farm e... Read more...
Government by the rich is called plutocracy. Government by police power is autocracy. Government by thieves is kleptocracy. Government by Trump and gang, however, is all of the above, which adds up to something... Read more...
Our society has coined expressions like "philanthropist" to encourage and hail people's charitable spirit.
Look on the flip side of that shiny coin of generosity, however, and you'll find that its base subst... Read more...
What's the Weirdest Species of All?
I love those nature shows that probe the behavior and intelligence of birds, elephants, and other fellow creatures.
However, there's one exotic critter the shows have i... Read more...
I'm guessing that being rich is a comfortable feeling – no money worries, you're set for life!
But is it possible that too rich can be too much, even discombobulating? Imagine being Mark Zuckerberg, whose so... Read more...
As Ray Charles wailed in a song of true-life blues: "Them that's got is them that gets/And I ain't got nothin' yet."
While the workaday majority of Americans continue to be mired in our low-wage economy, the... Read more...
While Donald Trump fans the embers of xenophobia in our country by demonizing caravans of desperate Latinos headed north from Central America, there are other northern-bound caravans he doesn't mention.
Thes... Read more...
