Making Work Work for Workers December 2021As a writer, I get stuck every so often straining for the right words to tell my story. Over the... Read more...
What’s the “Quits Rate?” And Why Is It Skyrocketing? November 2021Corporate bosses across America have been sputtering in outrage at you working stiffs this summer, spewing expletives about the fact... Read more...
Which food future will you choose? November 2021America certainly has an abundance of food (even though many Americans do not), yet we face a momentous choice of... Read more...
When and where was the first Thanksgiving Feast? November 2021Let’s talk Turkey! No, not the Butterball sitting in the Oval Office. I’m talking about the real thing, the big... Read more...
Why Did the Democrat Lose Virginia’s Gubernatorial Race? November 2021Here they come again – That gaggle of Washington politicos and pundits who keep assailing Joe Biden’s package of FDRish... Read more...
Should Apple Profit By Blocking Our Consumer Rights? November 2021At least since the invention of the wheel, people have fixed, tinkered with, and improved every device they’ve possessed. It’s... Read more...
Repair Your Own Products? Corporations Say No! November 2021America’s economic and political inequality has led workaday Americans to exclaim: “The system is broken. Let’s fix it!” But there’s... Read more...
The Republican Supremes Are Defrocking Themselves November 2021What is so supreme about the Supreme Court? I mean besides being housed in an imposing marble building, being the... Read more...
The Sad Whine of Supreme Court Right Wingers November 2021Ralph Waldo Emerson told about a guest who came to dinner and spent the entire evening prattling about his own... Read more...
Working From Home – While Your Boss Watches You on Video October 2021If you’re a corporate employee, you know that something unpleasant is afoot when top executives are suddenly issuing statements about... Read more...
Beware of “Spot,” the $75,000 Wonder Dog October 2021Tick-tick-tick… each sweep of Big-Tech’s clock enhances corporate power – but its hands also sweep away more of our civil... Read more...
Why Would We Let Wall Street “Care For” Our Pets? October 2021Question: What does a packet of M&M’s and your local veterinarian have in common? Answer: Both are owned by Mars... Read more...
The Corporatization of Pet Care: Animal Cruelty? October 2021For many people, the animals they adopt and love become more like family members than pets. We have deep relationships,... Read more...
Can the Rest of the Nation Follow Alabama? October 2021Here are two terms you don’t expect to see together: “The state of Alabama” and “progressive leader.” (Ok, I’m a... Read more...
America needs a quality child care system October 2021Nearly every nation with an advanced economy (and some not so advanced) treats child care as a fundamental public good... Read more...
Why Corporations Pay Millions for Executive Mediocrity October 2021Most people believe the American economy is being rigged by and for bankers, CEOs, and other superrich elites, because… well,... Read more...
The Grand Larceny of Bank(er) Robbery October 2021Exciting news from Wall Street: Our wealth markets are booming! Everything from the Dow Jones Average to gold prices are... Read more...
Let’s Create a Bank System That Serves People, Instead of Bankers September 2021Corporate ideologues never cease blathering that government programs should be run like a business. Really – what businesses would they... Read more...
Your Dog Knows Better Than To Let The GOP “Fix” Our Postal System September 2021When Donald Trump declared he would fix the US Postal Service, he was using the word “fix” the same way... Read more...
Can Corporate Profit and Morality Be Compatible? September 2021Is “corporate ethics” an oxymoron? Do you have to be a jerk to be a successful CEO? Is exploitation the... Read more...
How About an Award for Sleaziest Corporate Profiteering? September 2021We’ve got the Academy Awards, the Emmy’s, and GRAMMYs… but what should we call the award for the most extraordinary... Read more...
Hey Washington: Follow The People September 2021“Those in the know,” say that We the People should forget any progressive fantasy that – at long last –... Read more...
Forget Trickle-Down BS – Let’s Push Percolate-up Economics September 2021The past year proves that a lot of conventional economic wisdom is neither true nor wise. For example: “We don’t... Read more...
Where’s the “Dignity of Work” When Work Kills Workers? September 2021Corporate acolytes and right-wing moralists constantly preach to laboring stiffs about the uplifting dignity of work. Of course, that’s “dignity”... Read more...
Work, Sweat, Die: The Price of Really Hot Jobs September 2021Here’s a hot topic for Labor Day: Heat. It’s been a hell of a hot summer, exploding the top off... Read more...
