by Richard Eskow | Aug 30, 2016 | Blog, Health
Financial columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote a column entitled "Healthcare Is a Business, Not a Right." She was responding to a tweet from financial writer Helaine Olen: 25. The health of Americans should not be a profit center. Health care is a right. Full...
by Robert Reich | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
I recently got a call from a political analyst in Washington. “Trump is dropping like a stone,” he said, convincingly. “After Election Day, he’s history.” I think Trump will lose the election, but I doubt he’ll be “history.” Defeated presidential candidates typically...
by Richard Eskow | Aug 29, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
When William Greider wrote his 1989 book about the Federal Reserve, it’s not hard to understand why he called it “Secrets of the Temple.” The Fed’s proclamations can make it seem as mysterious as the Oracle of Delphi. (To be fair, nobody has speculated that...
by Terrance Heath | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, This Is The GOP
This week, in a scathing take-down of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton linked him to white supremacists and white nationalists in the alt-right movement, and laid bare his own history of racial discrimination. Republicans responded with deafening silence. When the...
by Dave Johnson | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Democracy
If a company does something bad to you, you can sue them, right? Actually, thinking that is so 1970s. These days, gimmicks called "arbitration clauses" in contracts you are forced to sign basically let companies do what they want and keep you from taking them to...
by Miles Mogulescu | Aug 26, 2016 | Blog, Conservatism, Election 2016
Working in the film business, I briefly met the Donald Trump Republican presidential campaign’s new CEO, Steve Bannon, during the 1990s when he was a Hollywood investment banker. As one producer whom Bannon helped raise capital for told me, even back then he was an...
