Hey, Democrats: Find the Party’s Future in its Populist Past
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
Jim Hightower
Big Apple Mayor Takes Big Bite Out of Democracy
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
Where’s George Orwell Today? Texas!
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
What Nation Besides Israel Is Killing Gaza’s Innocent Palestinians?
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
Why Big Corporations Get Special Tax Breaks and You Don’t
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
Should We Be Polite as the GOP Stomps on Our Democratic Rights?
How sweet that the Supremes are so judiciously cordial to each other while slapping down our democratic rights. When a fox attacks a hen house, is it uncivil … Read more
Senator Katie Britt Plays a Cruel Political Game to Exploit a Mexican Rape Victim
Poor Senator Katie Britt, Republican from Alabama, set up by her party’s operatives to do the GOP’s televised SOTU response. Poor Senator Katie Britt, Republican from Alabama. She … Read more
Tom Paine: What a Guy!
The greatest of America’s “Founding Fathers” was none other than Tom Paine. In my view, the greatest of America’s “Founding Fathers” was not George Washington or Thomas Jefferson … Read more
Icarus: Solution to Climate Change?
Proposed techno-money schemes are like Icarus and his wings of wax and feathers, who flew too close to the sun. Although the sun is an essential life force, … Read more
How Corporate Lobbyists Can Engineer a Train Wreck
Corporate lobbyists are great at championing reform while killing it. “Corporate crises consultants” (yes, there are such creatures) are just corporate lobbyists who have patented a formula allowing … Read more
