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...
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...
Until her death last summer, Margaret Mary Vojtkotaught French for 25 years at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, earning high marks from... 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...
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...
The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as “Obamacare,” the federal deficit, or states’... 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...
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...
“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...
In January, a small group of Indiana schoolteachers encountered their governor, Mitch Daniels, in a hallway of the state capitol. They... Read more...
It’s unlikely that you have heard of a novel entitled Alpaca, but it was a remarkably portentous piece of political writing by... Read more...
In 1986, Richard Kimball, a Democratic state legislator in Arizona, was running for a US Senate seat. In a televised... Read more...
Is there no balm in Gilead… or in Washington? Will no Democrat soothe the people’s anger at the constant giveaways to... Read more...
Lonnie Johnson was the early blues and jazz great who turned the guitar into a solo instrument. In the 1920s, he... Read more...