Who Cares Who the Secretary of Agriculture Is?
The job of secretary of agriculture in the past has first and foremost been to keep moneyed interests in charge. Years ago, Robert Kennedy noted that making economic, … Read more
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This Thanksgiving, Let’s Celebrate AgriCULTURE, Not AgriBUSINESS
This is one of the most important populist struggles occurring in our society. It’s literally a fight for control of our dinner. In December 1972, I was part … Read more
Trump’s Anti-Labor Department
Trump has been the Anti-Labor President, all the while bombastically asserting at rallies that he’s the workers’ champion. In building glittery enclaves like Trump Tower, luxury resorts and … Read more
‘Lefty Righties’ Appear in ‘Trump Country’
Lefty righties? A multitude of overtly progressive ballot issues won majority support on Tuesday, even in so-called Trump Country. Many years ago, literary critic Dorothy Parker skewered an … Read more
Prop 22 Helps Gig Giants Strip Health Care from Low-Wage Workers
It’s just an attempt by Uber, Lyft and other gig giants to keep low-wage workers down. There’s a mournful Peggy Lee song that asks the existential question: “Is … Read more
A Wealth of Riches, a Poverty of Morals
Despite the pandemic, the wealth of billionaires is zooming, though they suffer from a poverty of morals. Let’s say you’re a millionaire. That’s a lot of money, right? … Read more
This is Your Brain on Aphorisms: Russian Interfearance is Scary
Russian Interfearance: Don’t let a Russian con “troll” your opinion. To Russia Under Mister Putin. Red Don in the morning, patriots take warning. Trump: Defending tyranny while defunding … Read more
Pandemic in the Meat Plants
Corporate meat plants, backed by slimy politicians, have an evil mentality that reduces workers to inferior, disposable beings. Until recently, few people considered the sources of their meat. … Read more
Something Is Rotten at Big Meat Inc.
Big Meat profiteers employ a wholly unethical, cost-of-doing-business approach. Upton Sinclair’s landmark 1905 book, “The Jungle,” exposed the food contamination and worker exploitation hidden in the fetid stockyards … Read more
The Dow Jones v. the Doug Jones
Forget the Dow Jones Industrial Average; we need policymakers who give a damn about the Doug Jones Average. Wow, how about that Dow? The Dow Jones Industrial Average, … Read more
