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Republicans are offering yet another sob story about the super-rich suffering unbearably from excessive taxation. Excellent news, people: Republican officials are mounting an all-out political push for a … Read more
Oh, the tragic plight of our nation’s downtrodden multibillionaire class! They want their kleptocracy! One group of oppressed Americans has become especially outspoken this election year, contending that … Read more
Ted Cruz is trying to gut a consumer-friendly rule requiring airlines to make automatic, hassle-free passenger refunds. A Republican senator once tried excusing the egomaniacal right-wing nastiness of … Read more
No disrespect meant to reptiles when Jonathan Mitchell is compared to a snake in the grass. Let me be clear that I mean no disrespect to reptiles when … Read more
Every religion prioritizes care for the needy, so God bless the nurses! Every religion prioritizes care for the needy. Christianity’s Benedictine Rule, for example, puts care of the … Read more
Wall Street and the two-party duopoly conspired to crush a democratic reformation in its populist past. A farmer friend of mine once bemoaned the fact that the Democrat … Read more
A special report from the Department of Really Bad Ideas in the Big Apple. And now: A special report from the Department of Really Bad Ideas in the … Read more
Texas politicians would be right at home in a George Orwell novel, pushing their party straight into the abyss of autocracy. If you think the GOP’s Congress of … Read more
Netanyahu is restricting humanitarian aid from reaching the Palestinians, yet our government is his biggest enabler. “Somebody better investigate soon.” That’s a lyric in Bob Dylan’s Oxford Town, … Read more
America’s tax code is an arcane work of gobbledygook written in back rooms — so powerful corporations get special tax breaks and you don’t. Free market ideologues fabricate … Read more
