by Tim Wilkins | Nov 22, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Miles Mogulescu Is Pete Buttigieg A Shill For The Donor Class? Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old Maltese-American mayor of South Bend, the fourth-largest town in Indiana, is the shiny new object in the race to become the Democrats’ candidate for...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 21, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Steven Rosenfeld How Social Media Amplifies Trump’s Rants And Disinformation As 2020 nears, disinformation—intentionally false political propaganda—is increasing and getting nastier. Central to this disturbing trend is President Trump, whose...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 20, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Tom Conway Corporate Spies Keep An Eye On Organized Labor Google’s computers are spying on its workers. Anytime a Google employee uses an online calendar to schedule a meeting involving more than 100 co-workers, management gets an alert—a great way for...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 19, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Robert Borosage Warren Won’t Back Down On Medicare For All When Elizabeth Warren was criticized for not detailing how she would pay for Medicare for All, most pundits assumed she would duck and cover. M4A is Bernie Sanders’s signature legislation, but...
by Tim Wilkins | Nov 18, 2019 | Breakfast
MORNING MESSAGE Mehrdad Azemun How We Can Breathe Life Back Into Democracy Many people hate the word “politics.” They equate it with corruption, greed and the consolidation of unchecked power. And the U.S. Presidential race only magnifies these feelings and...
