Who’ll help America’s hard-hit gold miners?

These are hard times for America's gold miners, who're scrambling to get ahead, but seeing their pay dropping. Take Bob Mercer, who's been a top miner for years, but last year even Bob was down. He pulled in only $125 million in pay. Can you feel Bob's pain? Read more...

What are the Koch Boys up to?

Where are Charlie and Dave, Mrs. Koch's two mischievous boys? The Koch brothers have stayed out of the national limelight recently but they're still trying to supplant American democracy with their little laissez-fairyland plutocracy. In fact, in late June, they held a meeting of the Koch Boys Billionaires Club, gathering about 400 other uber-wealthy rascals to plot some political high jinks for next year's elections. Read more...

Should lousy, low-wage “jobs” count as jobs?

Excellent news, folks: Jobs are now plentiful! As the Associated Press put it, "The US job market has settled into a sweet spot of steadily solid growth." At long last then, the American dream is back for working families, right? No. Read more...

When is daylight robbery not a crime?

     I thought Donnie Trump and his fellow Republicans were big law 'n' order politicians. So, why are they trying to kill the sheriff and unleash thousands of robbers to run wild across America?  Read more...

Why can’t our economy promote equality and shared prosperity?

You don't have to be in "Who's Who" to know what's what. For example, if a tiny group of Wall Street bankers, billionaires, and their political puppets are allowed to write the rules that govern our economy and elections, guess what? Only bankers, billionaires, and puppets will profit from those rules. Read more...

Will you enlist in “Trump’s War?”

President Trump might have dodged military service in his youth, but he certainly is militaristic – he is bellicose, likes to issue commands, and is constantly firing off militant tweets at anyone he perceives to be an enemy (which seems to include everyone who dares to disagree with him). Read more...

General Trump’s Twitter bombs

Doggonit, Donnie Trump missed his opportunity to become a General Patton-style military commander and glorious war hero back in the...

Dr. Ben Carson’s right-wing medicine show

The Trumpeters are fully embracing the right-wing's imperious disdain for poor people, blaming them for creating their own economic distress – a convenient ideological fabrication for a government intent on destroying our nation's social safety net. Read more...

Who is Mick Mulvaney… and why is he so awful?

In the contest for "Most Awful Member of Donald Trump's Cabinet," you'd assume that Jeff Sessions, the bigoted twerp now serving as attorney general, would be a shoo-in. Suddenly, however, Mick Mulvaney has darted from out of the deepest, meanest darkness of severe right-wing dogma to become the new favorite for awfulest of them all. Read more...

Where does inequality come from?

The vast inequality that's rending our society is not a natural, inevitable, or accidental phenomenon – it's caused intentionally by policy-decisions that corporate and political officials make. Read more...

What is worse than being poor?

One of the lucky things about being rich is that you automatically become handsome, your jokes are hilarious, and politicians...

How magical is The Donald?

Donald Trump, the Amazing Wunderkind of Global Luxury Living – and now Our Nation’s Phantasmagoric, Fast-charging President – is proving to be...
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