Who were the robber barons? The originals, I mean. They were a class of minor lords in feudal Germany who’d... Read more...
Sure enough, opportunists have rushed into America's local news void, sowing thousands of poisonous "imposter" news sites that churn out lies and partisan hackery in the guise of legitimate reporting. Read more...
It’s not the people who’ve “gone conservative,” it’s the Democratic establishment. Too many progressive organizations, especially larger Washington-based groups, have been too willing for too long to follow what in essence is the party’s business-as-usual corporate hierarchy. Read more...
Most intolerable is the steady drip-drip-drip of power it drains from America's democratic ideals and commitment to the Common Good. I can't say that Abbott and DeSantis are the worst that the GOP will try to put in the White House in 2024, but either one is a signpost of an increasingly assertive American fascism. Read more...
For two decades, the GOP’s network of corporate and right-wing operatives has painstakingly fabricated the Supreme Court as its own... Read more...
You've probably never heard of Leonard Leo, but this obscure, far-right ideologue is a major capo in the tight little world of the anti-democracy extremists who hold an iron grip on today's Republican leadership. Read more...
For two decades, the GOP’s network of corporate and right-wing operatives has painstakingly fabricated the Supreme Court as its own... Read more...
What the GOP bemoans as America's inflation problem, is actually a corporate greed problem. Read more...
Sometimes, when watching Congress in action, I can’t decide whether to laugh, cry, or check myself into an insane asylum.... Read more...
When looking for a sign of the times, sometimes it might literally be on a sign. That was true in Lincoln, NE, on July 9, when the tall billboard in front of a Burger King boldly informed customers: "We all quit. Sorry for the inconvenience." The impetus for the workers' mass public resignation was the "We're not gonna take it anymore" rebellion that is sweeping across workaday America and fueling a rejuvenation of unionization. Read more...
Today's Exxon executives have ambushed Golden Triangle unions. In a little-reported maneuver, they launched a crude attack this spring on the Steelworkers, attempting to bust the union, disempower the middle-class workforce, and entrench corporate autocracy in the oil industry. What's occurring in Beaumont is not a union strike, but a corporate lockout. Read more...
The rapidly widening divide between the rich and the rest of us is neither natural nor accidental. America needs a "Lizzie"--a way to re-balance the tax burden fairly between wages and wealth. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has taken the lead on this fundamental democratic reform by proposing a return to America's historic tax principle of "ability to pay." Her idea is to shut down the elites' shameful tax dodging with a straight-forward tax on extreme wealth. Read more...
BEZOS’ COLD, MICROMANAGED, time-motion approach to the workplace is a direct descendant (and extreme extension) of a theory of “scientific management”... Read more...
LEGEND HAS IT that Amazon is a classic story of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. In 1994, a bright,... Read more...
You might expect such liberal bastions as Boston, Madison, Boulder, and San Francisco to call for an end to corporate... Read more...
In order of the date of passage, here are the 16 states that have already petitioned Congress to let their... Read more...
So many absurdities abound in our lives that there’s a whole body of philosophical thought called “absurdism,” as well as... Read more...
While taking in the splendor of the Grand Palace in Bangkok, a tourist came across a monk and asked if... Read more...
Working. Poor. In our US of A, those words ought never be juxtaposed. The very concept of paying poverty wages in... Read more...
Several pro football franchises have chosen chest-pounding team names meant to symbolize how big, powerful, ferocious, and scary they are–names... Read more...
By gollies, McDonald’s cares. Despite being a corporate behemoth (more than 14,000 stores in the US, $27 billion a year... Read more...
In 2002, it was reported that British Prime Minister Tony Blair had told a friend an amusing tale about our man George W.... Read more...
Poverty in America: Bigger than ever and rapidly spreading. The flood of poor people in this Land of Plenty is being... Read more...
Some of you might remember “CREEP” from 1972’s Nixon-McGovern matchup. It could’ve been an apt code name for Tricky Dick himself,... Read more...