by Jim Hightower | Feb 22, 2017 | Blog
I love the names: Bobcat Farm, Golden Eagle Ranch, Long Prairie, Ten Mile Farm. They conjure up Americana, the old homestead, and our rich rural culture. Less bucolic, however, is the fact that all those farms are part of a massive Wall Street investment scheme called...
by Richard Eskow | Feb 22, 2017 | Blog
[fve]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDpk30f6Dzk[/fve] From online harrassment to digital strikebreaking, tech is different in the age of Trump. More precisely, the public policy concerns raised by powerful tech companies are heightened by the administration's actions...
by Julie Chinitz | Feb 22, 2017 | Blog
In his last five years, my grandfather used Medicaid to cover his nursing-home care. He spent those years in a wheelchair and needed professional help for his most basic needs. Thanks to Medicaid, he got that help. Now House Speaker Paul Ryan and his fellow...
by Dave Johnson | Feb 21, 2017 | Blog
Now that Republicans are running Congress and the executive branch, they're planning to "reform" (cut) corporate taxes (again). This time they using the subterfuge of "this will make companies more competitive." What does that mean? Of course, under Republicans, it...
by Robert Borosage | Feb 21, 2017 | Blog
Rep. Keith Ellison offers a lifeline to a Democratic Party that is struggling to stay afloat. The question is whether party officials realize that they are sinking and accept it. When the 447 members of the Democratic National Committee select a new chairman in...
by Sam Pizzigati | Feb 21, 2017 | Blog
Cheerleaders for concentrated wealth have a new reason to cheer. They have chanced upon a fresh rationalization for inequality. This new rationalization comes from an unlikely source, a sober and thoughtful just-published book from a distinguished historian and...
