by Robert Borosage | Jan 10, 2018 | Blog
As he marks the end of his first year in office, Donald Trump, the self-proclaimed “very stable genius,” stands astride the political world like a cartoon dybbuk, an orange menace of terrifying impulsiveness. With his tweet-spasms spewing venom on adversaries, his...
by Harvey J Kaye | Jan 9, 2018 | Blog
We who will oppose tyranny in all its guises this year don’t yet have our own Thomas Paine, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, or Martin Luther King, Jr. - but we do have their words. Keep them close. ...
by Jeff Bryant | Jan 9, 2018 | Blog
The big surprise at the end of 2017 is that U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been arguably worse for higher education than she has been for K-12, which is not what most experts predicted when she took the job. While protestors have dogged DeVos across the...
by Richard Eskow | Jan 8, 2018 | Blog
The new year had barely started when the world got new grist for the 'Trump-is-crazy' mill, one of the few American industries to experience a boom since Trump became president. Michael Wolff's profile of the current White House, "Fire and Fury," is filled with...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jan 7, 2018 | Blog
Apologists for the many millions in compensation that America’s largest corporations regularly dole out to their top executives have essentially one basic, all-purpose go-to defense. America’s corporate giants, this defense contends, are just paying the going “market...
by Leo Gerard | Dec 22, 2017 | Blog
Republicans promised the American people a tax bill for Christmas, and this week they delivered. It’s definitely a bill for working people and the poor because by 2025, they’ll pay more. For them, poverty is the new black. By contrast, Congress bestowed 83 percent of...
