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The Pentagon’s $125 Billion Cover-up
Let’s say you ask somebody a question. They give you an answer you don’t like, so you pretend you didn’t hear it. Probably all of us would cop to something like this at some time in our imperfect pasts. For most of us though, that pretending hasn't included trying to...
This Man May Be Trump’s Most Dangerous Cabinet Pick
President-elect Donald Trump recently picked Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as his nominee for U.S. attorney general, a position that leads the Department of Justice and serves as the top law enforcement officer for the country. But even a cursory look at Sessions’...
Draining the Swamp: A How-To Guide
When President-elect Donald Trump talked about "draining the swamp," it evoked the way Bernie Sanders talks about how the system is rigged. Many Americans believe — with good reason — that powerful corporate lobbyists, elites, and other moneyed interests control the...
Trump Is Taking on Wall Street, Literally
Actor Jack Nicholson says he finally understood the meaning of the word irony when his mother called him an SOB. So let us consider Donald Trump, who campaigned as the populist champion of the working-class, promising that — by golly — he was going to take on Wall...
Conflict of Interest? Of Course Not.
In OtherWords: December 7, 2016
Dear _____, Another week, another round of headlines from Trump's transition picks. This week in OtherWords, my colleague Josh Hoxie examines some of the next administration's key economic advisers and finds something startling: They're exactly the kind of Wall Street...
Who Voted for Wall Street?
During the campaign, Donald Trump said he wanted to fix our rigged economic system. And we can't do that, he said, by counting on the people who rigged it in the first place. He talked a big game about Wall Street and the big banks. He repeatedly called out Goldman...
What Trumponomics Means for Women
On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised again and again to "fix the economy." And now that he's won, he's busy padding his cabinet with Wall Street rogues and off-the-chart conservatives from the fringes. If you read their resumes, it's not hard to figure out...
On the Ground in Standing Rock
Beyond the protests, police crackdowns, and pipeline drama, what's it really like at Standing Rock, North Dakota? This October, I went to see for myself. Like many other Native and non-Native visitors, I went to support the Standing Rock Sioux's effort to keep the...
Why We Still Need Feminism
From his campaign rhetoric to his transition appointments, our next president has placed himself squarely in a conservative movement calling itself the "alt-right." That movement, the Los Angeles Times reports, "generally embraces and promotes white nationalism,...
