COVID-19 has been a doubly-deadly disaster for millions of Americans, destroying both life and livelihoods. But one of the most heartening responses to the crisis has come from the least-expected place: Corpora... Read more...

Wow, how about that Dow? The Dow-Jones Average of corporate stock prices, I mean – the one economic indicator that our nation’s establishment watches religiously. They’re like ancient priests watching a burb... Read more...

With our national election looming, someone should put up "lost dog" signs in every neighborhood saying, "Missing: Republican Party Platform." Voters won't find one though, for this so-called major political... Read more...

Wow, what a surprise! Have you seen the National Republican Party's official platform? Perhaps, like me, you would have expected it to be a mish-mash of Trumpian miasma, laissezfairyland corporate economics,... Read more...

Top regulatory officials in Trump's government keep chanting the same one-word mantra: "Deregulate... Deregulate... Deregulate..." Day after day, these agency bosses have been "liberating" greedy business inter... Read more...

Gosh, our Trasher-in-chief has really been busy lately, calling Kamala Harris "nasty" and calling our post offices "a joke." But, instead of trash-talking, shouldn't a president be, you know, running the gov... Read more...

As progressive champion John Lewis warned, your right to vote "is not guaranteed. You can lose it." You see, it's one thing to "have the right" to cast your ballot, but it's quite another thing to be able to... Read more...

In this horrible time of economic collapse, it is truly touching to see so many corporate chieftains reaching out in solidarity with the hard-hit working class. We know they're doing this because they keep t... Read more...

The holy mantra of health professionals was coined about 2,500 years ago by the Greek physician, Hippocrates: "Do no harm." Of course, that was before corporate healthcare took charge and asserted a new guid... Read more...

Sometimes I don't know whether to weep uncontrollably, laugh hysterically, or just throw up. I recently did all three when I saw another gusher of greed pouring out of corporate America. This one is especial... Read more...

During today’s COVID-19 crisis, the PR departments of every brand-name corporation are running slick ads nobly proclaiming: “We’re all in this together!” But simultaneously, the lobbying departments of those... Read more...

The Donald is in a funk. He's been outsmarted by an inert virus, his poll numbers are tanking, and even his demagogic pep rallies are falling flat. So, who to turn to for political comfort? Why of course – T... Read more...

As directed by their big business funders, top Republican officeholders across the country have been defying public health experts in past weeks to rush America's workers back into their jobs. But – oops! – the... Read more...

Why does Donald Trump refuse to wear a coronavirus mask? Because he realizes that, in a mask, we'd all recognize him as the robber who has been moving furtively behind the scenes of the pandemic to rig the rule... Read more...

Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease is presently raging anew because corporate-serving public officials rushed to “open the economy,” causing more infections and deaths. So, gosh, what to do n... Read more...

Once again, my state of Texas is saddled with a Republican gubernatorial goober. Greg Abbott is this guy's name, and he's another incompetent, right-wing ideologue whose botched handling of our state's COVID-19... Read more...