POLITICAL CORRUPTION

In the name of making us “safe,” the NSA has shredded privacy rights and now treats all citizens as suspects

October 2013

Rube Goldberg, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist of the last century, was famous for drawings of what he called “inventions” –complicated... Read more...

Do the three hop

October 2013

To see how easy it is for millions of innocent citizens to get caught up in NSA’s vast electronic web,... Read more...

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is not about free trade. It’s a corporate coup d’etat–against us!

August 2013

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...

America’s true history is not about “Great Men,” but about grassroots rebels and movements

July 2013

Beginning in elementary school, we’re taught a fictionalized “Great Man” version of our history. Generals, presidents, industrialists! All are romanticized, sanctified,... Read more...

One in three Americans are now poor, sapping our nation’s social, economic, and moral strength

June 2013

Poverty in America: Bigger than ever and rapidly spreading. The flood of poor people in this Land of Plenty is being... Read more...

The money swamp created by Citizens United: Dark Money, corporate shell games, and SuperPAC plutocrats

May 2013

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...

Here’s who is buying America’s democracy

April 2013

The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as “Obamacare,” the federal deficit, or states’... Read more...

Are drones watching you?

February 2013

Find out here. Are your local or state police using drones? Which ones? How many? At what cost? For what purpose?... Read more...

The drone-industrial complex wants 30,000 eyes in the sky spying on us Americans by 2020

February 2013

If you drive west from Marfa, Texas toward El Paso, you’ll cross some 200 miles of uniquely beautiful desert valleys... Read more...

Mitt’s Millionaire Club

October 2012

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...

The Big Three Myths fabricated by right wing fabulists to frame America’s elections

October 2012

During the past several years, a mess of plutocratic myths has been growing like kudzu across our political landscape. This aggressive... Read more...

The Rachel alternative

September 2012

“Michiganistan” is a huge national story with profound consequences for America’s historic ideal of being a self-governing people, the very... Read more...

Guided by the Koch brothers, Republicans have installed czars to run Michigan’s cities

September 2012

Here’s a political storyline that might seem familiar to you: With economic pain and political discord ripping across the land, he appeared... Read more...

Et tu, Obama?

June 2012

On Feb. 7, Barack Obama jettisoned his principled opposition to the Court’s elevation of Big Money over people by okaying... Read more...

The plutocrats who bankrolled the GOP primaries–and what they want in return

June 2012

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...

The Stratfor File

April 2012

What: Strategic Forecasting, Inc. is a for-profit, mini-CIA. It uses a web of paid informers around the world to gain... Read more...

Our taxes pay spies to work for rich shareholders– and pay for the corporatization of war itself

April 2012

On the last day of last year, Austin’s daily newspaper led with a story that it tagged as an “Internet Privacy”... Read more...

Corporate elites and their small-minded political servants are creating the Incredibly Shrinking America

December 2011

“We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide... Read more...

From Occupy Wall Street to Occupy Nation in just two months

November 2011

Americans who flew bombing missions in World War II had a saying: “You know you’re on target when you start getting... Read more...

Citizens united against Citizens United: A grassroots campaign to restore democracy

October 2011

Thank you Mitt Romney! Thank you for standing tall, speaking so forthrightly, and rallying so many democracy-loving Americans to join together... Read more...

Who is the Tea Party Congress?

September 2011

Seems like this would be an easy question to answer, but it turns out that we could find no group,... Read more...

It’s time to name the tea party politicians (and their sponsors)–and call them out

September 2011

As he keeps demonstrating, President Obama is not exactly Mount Rushmore material. But — good God! — the petulant pettiness and... Read more...

Why are we letting corporate Supremists steal our democracy from us?

August 2011

Bill Watterson is Mark Twain–with a drawing pen. He is a master cartoonist, but also a sharp-witted observer of the... Read more...

Summertime Lowdown: A picnic basket of absurdities, oddities, and some sweet positives

July 2011

It’s frightening to watch the Texas legislature in action, but it can also be entertaining–in the same way a freak show... Read more...

Billionaires’ front groups attack workers, public schools, and young voters

June 2011

In January, a small group of Indiana schoolteachers encountered their governor, Mitch Daniels, in a hallway of the state capitol. They... Read more...