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Friday, March 29, 2013
Slick, Paranoid Tea Party Video Aims for Violent Insurrection Many members of the Tea Party Patriots, and groups like it, are undoubtedly good people who have been manipulated into believing terrible things. Cracks in the group's wall of secrecy have offered glimpses of those manipulators by revealing its relationship with big-money Republican operators.
Friday, March 29, 2013Slick, Paranoid Tea Party Video Aims for Violent Insurrection Many members of the Tea Party Patriots, and groups like it, are undoubtedly good people who have been manipulated into believing terrible things. Cracks in the group's wall of secrecy have offered glimpses of those manipulators by revealing its relationship with big-money Republican operators.
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Monday, August 8, 2016
American Greed: Trump's Economic Team Is a Who's Who of What's Wrong Trump's team isn't just monochromatic and male. At least four, and perhaps as many six, of the men are billionaires. They range in age from 50 to 74 -- or, from "younger old white guy" to "older old white guy." Five team members are named Steve -- which means that eight of them are not. For diversity, that will have to do. There are only two economists on the team -- and one of them believes in the flat tax.
Monday, August 8, 2016American Greed: Trump's Economic Team Is a Who's Who of What's Wrong Trump's team isn't just monochromatic and male. At least four, and perhaps as many six, of the men are billionaires. They range in age from 50 to 74 -- or, from "younger old white guy" to "older old white guy." Five team members are named Steve -- which means that eight of them are not. For diversity, that will have to do. There are only two economists on the team -- and one of them believes in the flat tax.
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Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Every Person With a Conscience Is a Revolutionary Waiting to Be Born A revolutionary is, of course, someone who wants to overthrow the existing order. We need such people. The current order is unsustainable.
Tuesday, March 30, 2021Every Person With a Conscience Is a Revolutionary Waiting to Be Born A revolutionary is, of course, someone who wants to overthrow the existing order. We need such people. The current order is unsustainable.
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Thursday, October 23, 2014
5 Reasons Why Democrats Should Push Social Security Expansion -- Now Voters understand that cuts in Social Security's operating budget deprive them of something they've been paying for throughout their working lives. The next phase of Social Security expansion should also call for expanding, not shrinking, Social Security's administrative functions.
Thursday, October 23, 20145 Reasons Why Democrats Should Push Social Security Expansion -- Now Voters understand that cuts in Social Security's operating budget deprive them of something they've been paying for throughout their working lives. The next phase of Social Security expansion should also call for expanding, not shrinking, Social Security's administrative functions.
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Saturday, August 20, 2016
Trump's Estate Tax: An Aristocrat's Gift to His Friends and Family If anybody is a "little guy" it's Trump -- and I'm not talking about his hands. It takes a little heart to be born into such wealth and yet be filled with such self-regard and selfishness. It takes a little heart to want so much for himself and so little for others, to bring out the worst in our neighbors and be so cruel to the strangers at our door. Maybe we should call this spoiled child of privilege a "little prince."
Saturday, August 20, 2016Trump's Estate Tax: An Aristocrat's Gift to His Friends and Family If anybody is a "little guy" it's Trump -- and I'm not talking about his hands. It takes a little heart to be born into such wealth and yet be filled with such self-regard and selfishness. It takes a little heart to want so much for himself and so little for others, to bring out the worst in our neighbors and be so cruel to the strangers at our door. Maybe we should call this spoiled child of privilege a "little prince."
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Tuesday, July 7, 2020
The War on Logic: Contradictions and Absurdities in the House's Military Spending Bill The House Armed Services Committee just passed a defense appropriations bill filled with moral contradictions and illogical absurdities.
Tuesday, July 7, 2020The War on Logic: Contradictions and Absurdities in the House's Military Spending Bill The House Armed Services Committee just passed a defense appropriations bill filled with moral contradictions and illogical absurdities.
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Saturday, August 8, 2015
The GOP Debate: It's What Oligarchy Looks Like Interests of big-money donors were reflected in Thursday's debate -- in what we heard, and even more so in what we didn't hear. There was no mention of the great income transfer to the wealthiest among us, perils of climate change, economic threat posed by big banks, or the struggle of a declining middle class. Candidates never offered specific proposals to help working Americans, even when asked to do so by the moderators.
Saturday, August 8, 2015The GOP Debate: It's What Oligarchy Looks Like Interests of big-money donors were reflected in Thursday's debate -- in what we heard, and even more so in what we didn't hear. There was no mention of the great income transfer to the wealthiest among us, perils of climate change, economic threat posed by big banks, or the struggle of a declining middle class. Candidates never offered specific proposals to help working Americans, even when asked to do so by the moderators.
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Monday, October 21, 2013
The Road From Here: What About Medicare and Social Security? The posturing has begun. The position taken by Durbin, and apparently by the President as well, is that Republicans must agree to tax increases in return for entitlement cuts. Republicans say they're willing to give up the harmful cuts known as sequestration -- and only those cuts -- in return for Social Security and Medicare benefit reductions.
Monday, October 21, 2013The Road From Here: What About Medicare and Social Security? The posturing has begun. The position taken by Durbin, and apparently by the President as well, is that Republicans must agree to tax increases in return for entitlement cuts. Republicans say they're willing to give up the harmful cuts known as sequestration -- and only those cuts -- in return for Social Security and Medicare benefit reductions.
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Friday, February 6, 2015
13 Questions: About Greece, Europe, Austerity -- and Us Leaders like Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Sherrod Brown are likely to keep resisting Wall Street's unwholesome influence on our democracy. With every day that passes, however, it's less likely that any major banker will be prosecuted for the major acts of fraud committed in their institutions. There's a lot of moral hazard going around these days.
Friday, February 6, 201513 Questions: About Greece, Europe, Austerity -- and Us Leaders like Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Sherrod Brown are likely to keep resisting Wall Street's unwholesome influence on our democracy. With every day that passes, however, it's less likely that any major banker will be prosecuted for the major acts of fraud committed in their institutions. There's a lot of moral hazard going around these days.
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Sunday, March 23, 2014
Bernie Madoff Sounds a Lot Like These Angry Billionaires Some of the most powerful and wealthy people in America are feeling persecuted. The Langone/Perkins crowd is powerful, angry, afraid and unrepentant. That doesn't bode well -- for them or anyone else. Many of these angry billionaires have earned their wealth through intelligence and hard work. They've also been lucky, and have been aided by the society whose citizens they now castigate in the harshest terms.
Sunday, March 23, 2014Bernie Madoff Sounds a Lot Like These Angry Billionaires Some of the most powerful and wealthy people in America are feeling persecuted. The Langone/Perkins crowd is powerful, angry, afraid and unrepentant. That doesn't bode well -- for them or anyone else. Many of these angry billionaires have earned their wealth through intelligence and hard work. They've also been lucky, and have been aided by the society whose citizens they now castigate in the harshest terms.
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Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Ilhan Omar and Bernie Got It Right: Full Student Debt Cancellation Is the Best Approach Sen. Bernie Sanders, together with Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, has introduced a dramatic reform package on college affordability. It goes far beyond anything proposed so far, both in its scope and in its potential to reshape the way Americans think about their society and government.
Wednesday, June 26, 2019Ilhan Omar and Bernie Got It Right: Full Student Debt Cancellation Is the Best Approach Sen. Bernie Sanders, together with Representatives Ilhan Omar and Pramila Jayapal, has introduced a dramatic reform package on college affordability. It goes far beyond anything proposed so far, both in its scope and in its potential to reshape the way Americans think about their society and government.
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Friday, May 1, 2020
It's Not a "Chinese Virus." The Correct Name Is "The Capitalism Virus" COVID-19 reached New York primarily from Europe, not China. Italy was a center of the infection in Europe, and the deep business ties between Italy and China -- including the manufacture of designer bags and cheap clothing in Tuscany -- contributed to its devastating spread there.
Friday, May 1, 2020It's Not a "Chinese Virus." The Correct Name Is "The Capitalism Virus" COVID-19 reached New York primarily from Europe, not China. Italy was a center of the infection in Europe, and the deep business ties between Italy and China -- including the manufacture of designer bags and cheap clothing in Tuscany -- contributed to its devastating spread there.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2012
Fix the Debt's New Email: Too Cruel to Laugh, Too Ridiculous to Cry It's easy to make fun of something this inept, and the overpaid cynics at Fix the Debt -- and fellow shell organizations like the Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget -- certainly have it coming. But this time they've crossed a line. They're claiming to speak in the very interests of the people who would be most hurt by their actions.
Tuesday, December 25, 2012Fix the Debt's New Email: Too Cruel to Laugh, Too Ridiculous to Cry It's easy to make fun of something this inept, and the overpaid cynics at Fix the Debt -- and fellow shell organizations like the Committee For a Responsible Federal Budget -- certainly have it coming. But this time they've crossed a line. They're claiming to speak in the very interests of the people who would be most hurt by their actions.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
An Etiquette Lesson For Elizabeth Warren From "El Loco" Politicians and regulators serve criminal banks for the very same reason that Willie Sutton robbed them: That's where the money is. If these Senators don't figure that out pretty soon, they're going to have to go to the people to raise money. And going to the people is a ghastly experience. The people are messy, over-emotional, and have all sorts of opinions about their government.
Monday, March 11, 2013An Etiquette Lesson For Elizabeth Warren From "El Loco" Politicians and regulators serve criminal banks for the very same reason that Willie Sutton robbed them: That's where the money is. If these Senators don't figure that out pretty soon, they're going to have to go to the people to raise money. And going to the people is a ghastly experience. The people are messy, over-emotional, and have all sorts of opinions about their government.
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Thursday, February 15, 2018
A Kingdom Where Nobody Dies When we reached adulthood, each of us made an unspoken promise to the children of this country. We said we would protect them, support them, help them lead beautiful lives. Today, once again, that promise has been broken. America's rifle. America's promise. And America's childhood, a kingdom we've surrendered for no good reason at all.
Thursday, February 15, 2018A Kingdom Where Nobody Dies When we reached adulthood, each of us made an unspoken promise to the children of this country. We said we would protect them, support them, help them lead beautiful lives. Today, once again, that promise has been broken. America's rifle. America's promise. And America's childhood, a kingdom we've surrendered for no good reason at all.
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Monday, August 18, 2014
One Nation Under Siege: "Counterinsurgency Cops" in Ferguson -- and on TV The transfer of used military equipment from the armed forces to police departments around the country has been accompanied, at least to a certain extent, by a shift in public thinking. The news media have played a critical part in that shift, both in its coverage and in what it chooses not to cover.
Monday, August 18, 2014One Nation Under Siege: "Counterinsurgency Cops" in Ferguson -- and on TV The transfer of used military equipment from the armed forces to police departments around the country has been accompanied, at least to a certain extent, by a shift in public thinking. The news media have played a critical part in that shift, both in its coverage and in what it chooses not to cover.
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Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Big Bank CEOs Want to "Listen" to Black Communities. They Should Return Their Stolen Wealth Instead. Bank CEOs have been espousing a limited form of anti-racism lately, while studiously ignoring their own institutions' record of exploiting African Americans.
Wednesday, June 10, 2020Big Bank CEOs Want to "Listen" to Black Communities. They Should Return Their Stolen Wealth Instead. Bank CEOs have been espousing a limited form of anti-racism lately, while studiously ignoring their own institutions' record of exploiting African Americans.
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Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Why *Wouldn't* Obama Cut Social Security and Medicare? Polls continue to show that voters across the political spectrum oppose these kinds of cuts -- "hate" isn't too strong a word -- and would even be willing to pay more in taxes to protect Social Security. These cuts might become be the most unpopular domestic policy decision in modern history.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013Why *Wouldn't* Obama Cut Social Security and Medicare? Polls continue to show that voters across the political spectrum oppose these kinds of cuts -- "hate" isn't too strong a word -- and would even be willing to pay more in taxes to protect Social Security. These cuts might become be the most unpopular domestic policy decision in modern history.
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Where the Hell Is the Outrage? It's not that things aren't changing. It's that people don't know they're changing. Without that knowledge the public becomes a canary in a coalmine, only aware of its declining oxygen supply when it keels over and dies. The media has failed to tell the story of our broken economy. The two-party system is failing, too, as corporate forces complete their corruption of the GOP and seize an ever-increasing chunk of the Democracy.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013Where the Hell Is the Outrage? It's not that things aren't changing. It's that people don't know they're changing. Without that knowledge the public becomes a canary in a coalmine, only aware of its declining oxygen supply when it keels over and dies. The media has failed to tell the story of our broken economy. The two-party system is failing, too, as corporate forces complete their corruption of the GOP and seize an ever-increasing chunk of the Democracy.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Tom Friedman: A New Ayn Rand for A Dark Digital Future Thomas Friedman is the perfect mirror for the undeserved self-infatuation which has infected our corporate, media, and political class. He's the chief fabulist of the detached elite, the unfettered Id of the global aristocracy, the Horatio Alger of self-deluded, self-serving, self-promoting techno-hucksterism.
Thursday, July 25, 2013Tom Friedman: A New Ayn Rand for A Dark Digital Future Thomas Friedman is the perfect mirror for the undeserved self-infatuation which has infected our corporate, media, and political class. He's the chief fabulist of the detached elite, the unfettered Id of the global aristocracy, the Horatio Alger of self-deluded, self-serving, self-promoting techno-hucksterism.
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