Suddenly, “social distancing” is our new national etiquette, abruptly supplanting handshakes, hugs, gatherings, and other forms of ingrained communal behavior...Read more...
Amazingly, America has become a nation of socialists, asking in dismay: “Where’s the government?” These are not born-again Bernie Sanders...Read more...
When grassroots groups rise up against the corporate establishment to try winning some specific progressive changes for the common good,...Read more...
Right-wing Republicans and corporate Democrats have become a pathetic bunch of “No-can-do Nancys.” Faced with an economy reeling from the...Read more...
We might expect that corporate billionaires and Koch-funded Republican right-wingers would be howl-at-the-moon opponents of a wealth tax, Medicare-for-All, and...Read more...
Government by the rich is called plutocracy. Government by police power is autocracy. Government by thieves is kleptocracy. Government by...Read more...
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