The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as “Obamacare,” the federal deficit, or states’... Read more...
Practically every national brand name you’ve ever heard of now slips predatory arbitration provisions into their customer terms-of-service agreements and/or... Read more...
You don’t hear much about it, but there is another path to justice for some consumers who’ve been wronged by... Read more...
Being wronged by a corporation is painful enough, but getting your day in court is no picnic either. Aside from... Read more...
Find out here. Are your local or state police using drones? Which ones? How many? At what cost? For what purpose?... Read more...
If you drive west from Marfa, Texas toward El Paso, you’ll cross some 200 miles of uniquely beautiful desert valleys... Read more...
CITIZENS UNITEDÂ not only unleashed the Big Dogs of corporate money in this election, but it also unleashed mad-dog corporate bosses... Read more...
As I learned from experience in my “vote-for-me” period, the nature of the political scramble is this: You win some,... Read more...
During his infamous, surreptitiously videotaped, $50,000-a-plate fundraiser in Florida, Romney was full of disdain for poor people “who pay no... Read more...
During the past several years, a mess of plutocratic myths has been growing like kudzu across our political landscape. This aggressive... Read more...
Demonstrating the depth of his insight into the problems of low-wage workers, GOP Rep. Bill Young of Florida recently “discussed” the... Read more...
Sometimes, it’s useful to state the obvious. Here’s a fact, for example, that we all know to be true: America’s economy... Read more...
You’ll be pleased to know that academics at such public-spirited institutions as Louisiana State University are dealing with the problem... Read more...
doing awfully well these days with their supposed “enemy” Barack Obama. The industry appeared to lose a round to opponents... Read more...
Whether you’re religious or not, seeing flames coming out of your kitchen faucet would be enough to make you fall to... Read more...
On Feb. 7, Barack Obama jettisoned his principled opposition to the Court’s elevation of Big Money over people by okaying... Read more...
Leave it to Bill Moyers, one of America’s most useful citizens, to sum up our country’s present political plight in a succinct... Read more...
What if drug marketers had to tell us the details of every under-the-table payment (aka bribes) that they make to... Read more...
Butterflies waft across a beautiful field of spring flowers. A delightful young family bicycles joyously down a country lane. A couple... Read more...
What: Strategic Forecasting, Inc. is a for-profit, mini-CIA. It uses a web of paid informers around the world to gain... Read more...
On the last day of last year, Austin’s daily newspaper led with a story that it tagged as an “Internet Privacy”... Read more...
We’re being told by today’s High Priests of Conventional Wisdom that everyone and everything in our economic cosmos necessarily revolves around... Read more...
“We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide... Read more...
Americans who flew bombing missions in World War II had a saying: “You know you’re on target when you start getting... Read more...
Thank you Mitt Romney! Thank you for standing tall, speaking so forthrightly, and rallying so many democracy-loving Americans to join together... Read more...