by Richard Eskow | Nov 17, 2017 | Blog
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...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 14, 2017 | Blog
The base is critical to victory — and it wants to move left. If you're a Democrat, there's a name for that unfamiliar emotion you were feeling last Tuesday night. It's called happiness. But there is a serious risk that the party will draw the wrong lessons from last...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
The concentrated wealth of the global plutocracy is the dark matter of the world economy: it is rarely glimpsed and difficult to measure, yet it reshapes everything around it. Two recent reports – the UBS/PwC report on the "new Gilded Age" of the international...
by Richard Eskow | Nov 5, 2017 | Blog
Democrats are fighting again. The trigger this time is former Democratic National Committee Chair Donna Brazile's forthcoming book, which says that Hillary Clinton's campaign was given significant control over the DNC long before she became the party's nominee. It's...
by Richard Eskow | Oct 30, 2017 | Blog
A new poll shows most Democratic voters want their party to move left, with new people in charge. In other words, they want a political revolution. They've got the right idea. If the party establishment thinks Robert Mueller's investigation will save it, it's probably...
