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(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, January 14, 2017
The Dullest -- and Most Shocking -- Moment in Trump's Press Conference It's hard to turn away from Trump's abusive treatment of the press, or his poor grasp of national security, or those long periods when his rambling turns to near-incoherence. All of those qualities were on conspicuous display in Wednesday's press conference.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, May 10, 2021
Medicare and Drug Costs Can Drive Elections House reforms are focused on allowing the government to negotiate prices with drug corporations on behalf of Medicare and other government programs, and then making those negotiated rates available to private health insurers.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, November 26, 2014
An Emotional, Poorly-Argued Attack on Elizabeth Warren from Times' Sorkin Andrew Ross Sorkin of the New York Times has attacked Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Her offense? Criticizing the appointment of yet another Wall Street banker to a top economic post. But Sen. Warren's fundamental point remains unrefuted: Wall Street dominates our government's decision-making apparatus to the detriment of our economy and our society, and that must change.

SHARE        Saturday, February 1, 2020
"Balfouristans" for Bibi: "Apartheid" Isn't an Insult, It's a Blueprint The Palestinians don't need any more advice. If they ever do, they can always look to the South African freedom struggle. It will remind them of the path forward, a path for justice they have long known lies before them, the only path that will lead to a decent future for the generations to come: no compromise on basic rights, no colonialism, and full nationhood for the Palestinian people.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 6, 2016
The Birds on Trump's Brain Here's what Trump said about wind power: "The wind kills all your birds. All your birds, killed. You know, the environmentalists never talk about that."Trump is still the Republican Party candidate. And when it comes to climate change, and regulations, and fossil fuels, he's more typically Republican than you might think. But when it comes to bird brains, he's in a class by himself.

(7 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, September 12, 2017
What Matters Is What Happens Next, Not "What Happened" The Democratic party faces a turning point. It can devote itself to economic populism and find new sources of both funding and energy, as the Sanders campaign did. Or, it can rededicate itself to the Wall Street centrism of its last three decades and continue to fail.

SHARE        Monday, May 4, 2015
After Baltimore: Soul Searching in Another America Violence, like the nation itself, takes different forms. The events in Baltimore were manifestations of personal violence, amplified by crowd behavior. They were triggered by state violence, represented by the unrestrained excesses of police officers. That form of violence seems to have been especially severe in Baltimore.

(6 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, May 7, 2013
60 Minutes and the Billionaire Agenda: Part 1, "Counterinsurgency Cops" Three stories were aired Sunday night: Counterinsurgency Cops, Robin Hood, and Invisible Wounds. The first two pieces advanced the anti-government billionaires' agenda with almost Orwellian efficiency. The third was less driven by that agenda, although it also reflected the biases which big-money interests have built into the institutions of journalism and politics.

(22 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Medicare For All Is Coming, No Matter What They Say One-third of our health economy is already managed through government programs. Our best minds should be tackling the challenge of reforming the remaining two-thirds. We have already have built some of the infrastructure and expertise we will need. Medicare For All is not only achievable. It's inevitable.

(2 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 18, 2017
How to Profit from the Coming Trump Apocalypse Trump, unstable as he is, is not an aberration in today's political system. He's a reflection of it. Our political process was broken before he came along. It will still be broken after he's gone, unless something is done to change it. Trump must be opposed, just as Ryan, McConnell, and Vice President Mike Pence must be opposed. But so must the system that gave them power.

(2 comments) SHARE        Saturday, November 3, 2012
Romney's Hopey-Changey, Hostage-Taking "Closing Argument" Behind Romney's sweet-sounding words is an ugly, ugly threat: elect me or we'll paralyze the government and shatter the economy. "You know that if the president is reelected," Romney said, "he will still be unable to work with the people in Congress." He forgot to mention why.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Did JPMorgan Chase Really Take a 'Ten Billion Dollar Hit' For Uncle Sam? Jamie Dimon's the same guy who assured investors that reported losses from that unit were just a "tempest in a teapot." And he's the same guy who said those losses, once they were revealed, would be roughly $2 billion. At last report, the bank said total losses amounted to $6.2 billion. You'd think a track record like that would inspire a little healthy skepticism among our nation's journalists.

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, April 16, 2018
Seven Questions About the Syria Airstrikes That Aren't Being Asked The drumbeat of political pressure has forced Trump's hand. He has now directed missiles against Syria, twice. Both attacks carried the risk of military confrontation with the world's other nuclear superpower. Whatever his personal involvement with the Russian government turns out to have been, it is in nobody's best interests to heighten tensions between two nuclear superpowers.

(5 comments) SHARE        Saturday, December 6, 2014
Why Demographics Can't Save the Democrats -- But Populism Can Personality alone isn't likely to win the day. Nor will fragmented appeals to disparate population groups. Yes, Democrats should support issues like humane immigration, marriage equality, and justice for African-American communities. But they should do so for moral reasons, not because they think it will lead to some imagined electoral panacea.

SHARE        Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Wells Fargo Had a Bad Day. That's a Start. Wells Fargo's CEO faced a rough grilling. That's a start. But John Stumpf is undoubtedly decompressing somewhere right now, waiting in comfort for the heat to die down. Wall Street's fraud won't end until its senior executives are held fully accountable for their actions -- and not just for a day.

(4 comments) SHARE        Friday, October 9, 2020
Trump Is the Grotesque Id of the Ruling Elites. His Disease Is Theirs -- and Ours This week, Trump minimized his own illness, an act of self-aggrandizement will almost certainly result in more deaths. But how many elites are repelled, at least in part, because Trump is publicly acting out impulses they hide in themselves?

SHARE        Monday, January 22, 2018
Death by Inequality: Poverty and Racism Are Killing America's Children We can't address poverty or inadequate health care without addressing inequality. And we must pay more attention to the deaths of America's children. If terrorists had taken their lives, we'd hear about it night and day. But these children were killed instead by bigotry, political cynicism, and greed. Politicians and the press will keep looking the other way, and the deaths will continue.

(3 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, October 25, 2017
Why "Centrists" Will Sink the Democrats, If They Haven't Already The bipartisan, centrist political consensus is breaking down. That's not an accident, and it's not an injustice. It's the result of repeated failures, both abroad and at home. The question is, what will replace it: something better, or something worse? If Democrats continue to follow the losing ways of the past, we probably won't like the answer.

SHARE        Saturday, September 17, 2016
Stiglitz Speaks: Globalization's Grand Failure, Apple & Bad Trade Deals Why have so many policymakers in Europe and the United States continued to push globalization, despite the evidence? "In American politics," Stiglitz replied, "part of the reason is of course the influence of money." He pointed out that both presidential candidates now say they oppose the TPP, which he takes as a hopeful sign.

(3 comments) SHARE        Saturday, August 6, 2016
As Republicans Defect, Will Clinton Be Tempted To Tack Right? The sense of panic among elite Republicans is palpable. They're beginning to understand that when they look at Donald Trump they're staring into the orange-hued face of their party's potential demise.

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