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 Jeff Bryant | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog
"Top-down class warfare" is what economist Paul Krugman calls the new Republican tax plans being drawn up in Congress, because both plans in the House and Senate propose "huge tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy" and eliminate scores of "credits and exemptions...
by Robert Borosage | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog
Sweeping victories in last Tuesday’s elections provided a bracing tonic for Democrats. “In case there was any doubt,” tweeted former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau, “the Resistance is real.” Tuesday’s victories should buoy Democrats but not mislead them. The reaction...
by Sam Pizzigati | Nov 15, 2017 | Blog
The voters of New Jersey just elected a former Wall Street banker as their new governor. Just what America needs, right? Many onlookers are undoubtedly thinking that the last thing our country needs at this troubled time another well-heeled Wall Streeter in a powerful...
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...
