What is the ‘Trump Fix’?
The Trump transition team is a viper’s nest of pay-to-play corporate interests. In Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, it was his frequent, unbridled slaps at Wall Street elites and … Read more
Jim Hightower
Why in the World Would Trump Tap Rick Perry to be Energy Secretary?
Rick Perry, better known as Gov. ‘Oops,’ is back! Perk up people — for I bring you tidings of great joy: Gov. “Oops” is back! Yes, Rick Perry, … Read more
Augustus Trumpus
Trump is the American Putin, whom none dare criticize, for fear of retribution. All hail Augustus Trumpus! All hail the American Putin, whom none can criticize! All hail … Read more
ALEC & the Koch Brothers Offer to Rewrite the Constitution
The new Founder, brought to you by the Koch brothers When you think of America’s great Constitutional originators, names like Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Washington, Hamilton and Franklin come … Read more
Trump Has the Greatest Humility, and He’ll Tell You So
Trump on his own splendiforousness What an election year. I feel like I’ve been transported through a cosmic squirrel hole and into a baffling political universe where facts … Read more
Media Missing the REAL Reality Show: An Epic Story from the American Heartland
The Cannon Ball Saga: Our inept media is missing the face-off between one of the world’s largest pipeline corporations and the Standing Rock Lakota Sioux Tribe. There is … Read more
The Ethical Rot of Wells Fargo, from the Top Down
Wells Fargo has been burrowing ever deeper into ethical slime Just when you thought that Big Banker greed surely bottomed out with 2008’s Wall Street crash and bailout, … Read more
Laboratories of Democracy
The states are supposed to be laboratories of democracy, not strongholds of plutocratic power. In a 1932 dissenting opinion, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis noted that the benefit … Read more
Cleaning Up After Pundits
Cleaning off the horsestuff that careless politicos dump on the word “populist.” Being a muckracking political writer often makes me feel like a custodian in a horse barn, … Read more
Fake Populist: Donnie’s Little Lies are Huuuuuge
Trump tries to sound like a populist, but his policies are just more trickle-down hokum. An old saying asserts that falsehoods come in three escalating levels: “Lies, damn … Read more
