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The sad saga of John Stumpf

April 2017

Poor John Stumpf. The preening, silver-haired CEO of Wells Fargo sat self-assuredly atop the pecking order of the financial establishment,... Read more...

A clueless dealmaker’s deal goes down

April 2017

Why? That’s the big question the mass media is asking about the sudden failure of the Republican leaders’ relentless push... Read more...

Why is Trump hostile to actual facts?

April 2017

Question: What do you get when you mix a barrel of fables, a sack of mendacity, and a gross of... Read more...

Why Trumpcare is sickening

March 2017

As Rep. Lloyd Doggett of Texas noted, “When you buy… a new pair of pants, it usually helps to ask... Read more...

Why should we subsidize higher pay for insurance CEOs?

March 2017

We’re hearing a lot these days about House Speaker Paul Ryan’s 123-page legislative plan for Trumpcare, the GOP’s so-called “replacement”... Read more...

There’s a word for Trump’s latest flimflamming of workers

March 2017

By gollies, The Donald delivers! Trump and his new blue-ribbon panel of working-class champions have announced a bold initiative to... Read more...

Are the rich different from you and me? Ask Cadillac!

March 2017

You know what our country needs right now? I think we need something that can bring us together again, something... Read more...

Shouldn’t someone say: “The Emperor has no clothes”

March 2017

Some people who attain high public office grow in their position of trust. Some, however, just bloat. Bloat has been... Read more...

What should we do about a mentally ill president?

March 2017

It’s time to state the obvious: The President of the United States is deranged. I don’t mean he’s merely idiosyncratic,... Read more...

How magical is The Donald?

March 2017

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

Trump’s hokey “mandate”

March 2017

Trump & Company claim to have a sweeping mandate from voters – but wait: Almost half of the electorate chose... Read more...

Searching for integrity in Trumplandia

March 2017

Bring those jobs back home, Donald Trump bellowed to those greedheaded corporate executives who’ve hauled our middle-class jobs out of... Read more...

Wall Street Plowboys

February 2017

I love the names: Bobcat Farm, Golden Eagle Ranch, Long Prairie, Pintail Vineyard, Roadrunner Ranch, and Ten Mile Farm. They... Read more...

Why Paul Ryan should sit down and be very quiet

February 2017

For nearly half a century now, America’s middle-class working families have been pummeled by corporate greedmeisters and their political henchmen.... Read more...

What’s 2017’s biggest banking fraud?

February 2017

Remember way back in time, back in the old days of… 2016? Back then, Trump was on the political stump,... Read more...

Hallelujah, Trump rushes to aid the needy!

February 2017

Of all the people suffering economic pain today, who should get priority attention from the new President and Congress? Regular... Read more...

There’s a word for Trump’s latest flimflamming of workers

February 2017

By gollies, The Donald delivers! Trump and his new blue-ribbon panel of working-class champions have announced a bold initiative to... Read more...

Why is George Orwell’s “1984” a bestseller again?

February 2017

Tromp-tromp-tromp – troops are marching to battles. Boom-boom-boom – bombs are blowing up communities. Whooooshhh – poisonous gas is being released. Forget Syria,... Read more...

Really and truly, who needs facts?

February 2017

Here in America the word “fact” has a straightforward, rather obvious meaning: Truth, reality, something that actually exists. But we... Read more...

Why so many people loathe Congress

January 2017

Uncle Sam wants you! Not the Uncle Sam who’s the symbolic caricature of our country, but Sam Johnson. Although he’s... Read more...

How many working-class populists are in Trump’s new government?

January 2017

Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him a “son... Read more...

What’s being taught at Koch Kollege?

January 2017

Breaking news: An amazing new school for political activists is training thousands of people to be community organizers, using Saul... Read more...

Has America turned right-wing? Or nuts?

January 2017

Buckle-up friends, it’s going to be a hairy ride. Start with Day One for President Trump (gotta get used to... Read more...

The new founder

January 2017

When you think of America’s great Constitutional originators, names like  Jefferson, Washington, and Franklin come to mind. And, of course,... Read more...

Trump’s “tax holiday”: Boon or boondoggle?

January 2017

Good news, folks – our new president says he’s planning a “tax holiday” for you! Well… not directly for you.... Read more...