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(4 comments) SHARE        Thursday, January 11, 2018
When Will Democrats Start #Resisting GOP Voter Suppression? Democrats need to come up with social and economic policies that are strong enough to bring their base to the polls. But these voters also deserve to know that their rights are being systematically suppressed -- and that they can do something about it by voting incumbents out of office.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, January 10, 2018
The GOP's 100-Year War Is Bigger Than Taxes or Trump While the nation obsesses about Trump, he and his fellow Republicans are radically rewiring our political and economic order. The tax bill they passed at the end of last year proves it. While we ponder Trump's state of mind, the leaders of his party are busy reshaping the country in their own morally misshapen image.

SHARE        Friday, November 17, 2017
Trump's HHS Pick Alex Azar Is the Worst Pharma Bro of All Nominating Alexander Azar to run Health and Human Services is like pinning a sheriff's badge on Billy the Kid. For all his polish and small-town charm, when it comes to pharmaceutical predation, the mild-mannered Azar puts blowhard "pharma bros" like Martin Shkreli to shame. Now, unless his nomination is blocked, he's about to be handed the keys to our nation's health.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, February 11, 2018
Progressives Beware: The United States of Care Is Not What It Seems Every other developed nation on earth has done a much better job providing medical care and controlling costs than this country's private sector. So has Medicare. We don't need magical fresh thinking. We need to take policies that have worked elsewhere and apply them to our entire health system. Liberals should withhold their trust from anybody who promises political miracles without answering tough questions.

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, March 27, 2020
Seven Rules for the Boeing Bailout As we change the way we live our lives, corporations like Boeing should change the way they are run. Corporate mismanagement made this crisis worse and, if it doesn't change, will make the recovery more difficult.

(3 comments) SHARE        Sunday, June 21, 2020
John Bolton and Liberals' Irrational Hatred of Trump Bolton's bombshells probably won't affect world history much. But failure should not be an unfamiliar experience to Bolton, a blundering war planner who is as incompetent as he is immoral.

(11 comments) SHARE        Friday, September 23, 2016
Immigrants Don't Steal Jobs Or Wages. Billionaires Do. Thanks to political science research published at Princeton University: political decision-making in this country is driven by corporate and ultra-wealthy elites, not by the democratic majority. This oligarchical usurpation of influence has led office holders at all levels to implement policies that kill jobs, depress wages, and increase inequality.

SHARE        Friday, June 23, 2017
GOP "Health" Bill: Death, Disaster and Gilded Age Greed The Republican Senate's draft health bill differs from the House version, but its basic purpose is the same: give millionaires and billionaires a massive new tax cut by slashing health benefits for millions of Americans, and take care away altogether from millions more. Republicans want to give us less and make us think it's more. It's time to tell them we've had enough.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Al Capone, Meet Wells Fargo Every major bank on Wall Street has a rap sheet that would make a Chicago gangster blush. Nevertheless, bank-servile Republicans -- including Donald Trump -- have been calling to disband the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, even as it brings Wells Fargo to something like justice.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Ten Reasons To be Suspicious About Wall Street's Facebook Fiasco Three of Wall Street biggest and best-known financial institutions handled the Facebook IPO, so why were people immediately suspicious when the stock soared and then promptly tanked? Easy answer: Because three of Wall Street biggest and best-known financial institutions handled the Facebook IPO.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, February 19, 2018
Trump's "Harvest Box" Delivers an Empty Promise There is a strong subtext of racism in the "harvest box" pitch, although 37 percent of people receiving food assistance are white. Nearly two-thirds of recipients are children, elderly, or disabled. Others are single parents. Some have been impoverished by structural racism, others by the economic collapse that has gripped entire swaths of our nation.

(7 comments) SHARE        Friday, February 17, 2017
A Big Day for Trump's Budget Pick, Social Security -- and Millionaires As OMB Director, it would be Mulvaney's responsibility to explain the financial implications of budget choices to the president. That makes Mulvaney's habit of describing Social Security as a "Ponzi scheme" especially disturbing. It reveals a basic lack of financial literacy.

SHARE        Monday, November 13, 2017
Why We Need to Confront the Billionaires' Paradise This concentration of power must be investigated, and then it must be confronted -- by a majority determined to take back the economy and democracy from the powerful few who have made it their plaything, before it's too late. It's time to "strike back" -- not against wealthy individuals, but against oligarchy itself.

(4 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 8, 2013
Why Obama's Social Security Cuts Are Our Wake-Up Call The president leads his party. Unless Democrats mount a concerted opposition to this budget, they'll have gone on record as the party that wants to cut Social Security. Democrats who support it will help inflict a deep wound on their party's electoral chances. We have a moral obligation to future generations, and to ourselves, to actively oppose the cuts in this budget.

(2 comments) SHARE        Sunday, November 10, 2019
Can Bloomberg Buy the Election for $12 Billion? If So, He Can Write the Check Today If anybody can buy this election with personal funds, "Mike" can. He is one of the richest people in the world. According to Forbes, a source that is hardly hostile to the wealthy, Bloomberg currently has a net worth of $52.3 billion. He may have certain restrictions on his investments and assets, but borrowing against them would be easy.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, March 24, 2012
The Dumbest 'Bipartisan' Move Since Repealing Glass-Steagall Once again the 'bipartisan' consensus in Washington, fueled by an intoxicating brew of conventional wisdom laced with campaign cash, has repealed some of those 'cumbersome regulations' that do nothing of value -- nothing, that is, except prevent catastrophes.

SHARE        Tuesday, August 1, 2017
Kochs and Trump Team Up to Cut Billionaires' Taxes Virtually all of the cuts -- 99.6 percent of them -- would go to the top 1 percent, according to Americans for Tax Fairness, cutting approximately $1.5 trillion from Medicaid while giving roughly $2 trillion in tax cuts to corporations. The House's "reform" plan would also cut nearly $500 billion from Medicare. These cuts will make you sick -- perhaps literally.

SHARE        Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Go Left, Dems: 7 Ways Democrats Are Misreading the November 7 Results Last week's victories offer only a temporary distraction from the Democratic Party's ongoing troubles. Voter approval of the party is at a 25-year low, down to 37 percent from March of this year. Perhaps even more significantly, approval is down markedly among nonwhites and young voters, two groups the party needs for long-term success.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, March 20, 2018
The Resistance Needs Better Heroes Donald Trump is both corrupt and unstable. I share the hope Mueller succeeds in bringing him to justice, although a President Pence could conceivably do more legislative damage than Trump has done thus far. Trump's escalating war of words against Mueller, even as his lawyer argues that Mueller's investigation should be shut down, is deeply worrisome.

(8 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Beware: Huge Media Companies Are Selling Corporate Ideology as the "New American Center" The Esquire/NBC News poll shows that 42% of respondents said they agreed with the statement that "financial reform should only be used to curb abuses, and shouldn't interfere with banks' and investors' ability to make profits." Esquire's editors say that journalists and advisers "better be substantive" and "leave their hobbyhorses at home." This study fails on both counts. If a "bleeding heart" won't tell you, who will?

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