by Richard Eskow | Jul 31, 2017 | Blog
This headline appeared on Monday, July 31, 2017, at precisely 4:00 am: “Koch Brothers Move to Back White House’s Tax-Cut Plan.” This one appeared less than twelve hours later: “White House sees tax reform zipping through Congress in October, November.” That’s what you...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 27, 2017 | Blog
Donald Trump’s White House seems more like a Quentin Tarantino movie every day. Amid allegations of broken laws and self-dealing at the highest levels, the president has now hired a Communications Director called “The Mooch.” The name brings to mind the famous “Mr....
by Richard Eskow | Jul 24, 2017 | Blog
A heat wave gripped Washington D.C. last week, its bright sun delineating each building's sharp corners with Edward Hopper-like clarity. Commuters waited listlessly for trains and buses, fixed in their moments of misery like flies in amber. If the city seemed like...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 21, 2017 | Blog
July 21 marks the six-year anniversary of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was created in the wake of the Wall Street crime wave that led to the financial crisis of 2008. The CFPB was first conceived by law professor Elizabeth Warren, now Senator Warren...
by Richard Eskow | Jul 11, 2017 | Blog
The idea of Medicare for All, or single-payer health care, has grown in popularity so quickly that it was recently an answer on the quiz show Jeopardy: More than half of all Americans, 53 percent, now want a single-payer plan, up from 40 percent in 1998-2000. But at...
