SHARE        Saturday, May 21, 2016
Tipping the Scales for Clinton? The Sanders movement has shown that lots of cash can be raised from everyday people making small donations. His supporters and all of us should be outraged that Debbie Wasserman Schultz and convention officials have kowtowed not only to the corporate wing of their own party but also to those high rollers who back the opposition and ideas antithetical to a democracy.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Time for These Two Democrats to Go Hillary Clinton should come right out and ask for the resignations of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Democratic National Committee Chair -- and Florida congresswoman -- Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In one masterstroke, she could separate herself from two of the most prominent of all corporate Democratic elitists.

SHARE        Wednesday, March 16, 2016
The Crazy GOP Establishment The Republican establishment likes to pretend that it is the responsible alternative to Donald Trump, but that self-image doesn't match reality, as Bill Moyers and Michael Winship describe.

SHARE        Friday, January 29, 2016
A Step Toward Campaign Transparency President Obama has called government "transparency" vital for a democracy. But, in practice, he has favored secrecy, keeping key foreign-policy facts away from Americans (all the better to manipulate them) and even balking at a rule requiring government contractors to disclose campaign spending, the latter only requiring a stroke of his pen, says Bill Moyers.

(4 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 23, 2016
Money Men Say, Voters Move Over, It's Not Your Election! Let's get this straight: One of the most prominent of Republican elites in the country, who has even been touted as President Obama's "favorite pundit" (we're not making this up!), is calling on the donor class to rescue the party from the rabble. Game's over, voters: The oligarchs will decide this election.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 21, 2016
A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail What exactly did Grady Flores do to warrant spending the next six months in jail? She photographed a peaceful protest outside Hancock Field Air National Guard Base near Syracuse, New York. The base is where the US trains pilots to launch drone strikes in the Middle East, particularly in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 16, 2016
The Clintons' Cheap Shot at Sanders Seeing the polls tighten, Hillary Clinton's campaign has gone on the attack against Sen. Bernie Sanders over his support for Medicare for all, accusing him of seeking to destroy Obamacare (though he voted for it). It's a deceptive assault, say Bill Moyers and Michael Winship.

(2 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, December 22, 2015
The Plutocrats Are Winning. Don't Let Them! The selling off of the Republic, piece by piece. What was it Mark Twain said? "There is no distinctive native American criminal class except Congress." Can we at least face the truth? The plutocrats and oligarchs are winning. The vast inequality they are creating is a death sentence for government by consent of the people at large.

SHARE        Saturday, December 19, 2015
Bad News for Democracy Is Great News for TV Profits The problem is money. Tons of it. Trump brings ratings and ratings raise advertising revenue. What's more, in an insane election cycle like this one, cash already is pouring in from the production, sale and placement of political TV advertising, cash that also makes television executives and political strategists wealthy.

(15 comments) SHARE        Friday, December 4, 2015
The GOP on the Eve of Destruction The Republicans seem to have made up their minds: they will divide, degrade and secede from the Union. They will do so by gerrymandering and denying the vote to as many of the poor, the elderly, struggling low-paid workers, and people of color as they can. And by appealing to the basest impulses of human nature: anger, fear and bigotry.

SHARE        Wednesday, October 28, 2015
The Paradox of Paul Ryan: Why the Tea Party's Right to be Wary You get the picture. Paul Ryan, waiting to be crowned speaker of what was once called "The People's House," prepares for business-as-usual. Committed to the sad and sordid Washington game that has so angered Americans on every point of the political spectrum, he is about to be named one of its Most Valuable Players.

(15 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Swimming Left, into the Mainstream Despite pundits dismissing Sen. Bernie Sanders's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, he is drawing big and enthusiastic crowds who seem eager for ideas about rebuilding the middle class and ending plutocracy, as Bill Moyers and Michael Winship note.

(1 comments) SHARE        Thursday, March 5, 2015
The Big Money Behind Netanyahu Sheldon Adelson, the casino tycoon who has proposed nuking Iran, was in the gallery as Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered his "State of the Union" speech to a rapt and rapturous U.S. Congress. After all, Adelson funds both Netanyahu and the Republican Right, as Bill Moyers and Michael Winship note.

(3 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 6, 2015
The Fiery Cage and the Lynching Tree, Brutality's Never Far Away Yes, it was hard to get back to sleep the night we heard the news of the Jordanian pilot's horrendous end. ISIS be damned! I thought. But with the next breath I could only think that our own barbarians did not have to wait at any gate. They were insiders. Home grown. Godly. Our neighbors, friends, and kin. People like us.

SHARE        Saturday, November 1, 2014
Bernie Sanders on Breaking Big Money's Grip on Elections The American dream has become impossible for most of us to achieve. And more and more Americans believe, quote, "there's not much opportunity to get ahead. ... A living wage, retirement security, the opportunity for your children to get ahead are increasingly out of reach. Why aren't people furious about this?

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, September 20, 2014
Climate Change You Can Believe In World leaders have refused to give global warming the crisis treatment that's needed, even as the evidence mounts day by day. A draft report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that the vast amounts of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere will have "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts," and that we're already seeing the effect in heat waves, floods and rising sea levels.

(19 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 4, 2013
Gun Madness v. Gun Sanity As the gun carnage continues across the United States, the Right won't stop peddling its bogus historical claimsabout the Second Amendment and rallying its gullible supporters to fight even modest safety laws. But victims of gun violence are finally fighting back.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, April 27, 2013
Do-Nothing Congress Gives Inertia a Bad Name A January report from Public Campaign Action Fund, found that, "Companies that lobbied against bringing jobs back to America and ending tax breaks for offshoring have given McConnell one million dollars to win his elections and look out for their interests." In other words: don't hold your breath.

(3 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 11, 2013
Dr. King's Warning of "Two Americas" Besides battering down the walls of racial segregation, Martin Luther King Jr. demanded that America address its economic barriers to fairness and justice, a challenge that may have earned him even more contempt from the power structure.

SHARE        Saturday, January 12, 2013
The "Crony Capitalist Blowout" Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, the top one percent of Americans have seen their incomes increase by 275 percent. But after accounting for inflation, the typical hourly wage for a worker has increased just $1.23 cents.