Rights and Democracy
Gropers Unite
Money Talks. We Need to Talk Louder.
In today's polarized political climate, it seems like there's no issue that people can agree on — except for maybe one. Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, and people on all parts of the spectrum largely agree on one thing: There's too much money in...
A Tax Plan Only a One Percenter Could Love
After the failed effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare), the Trump administration has set its sights on its next big project: so-called "tax reform." And the "reform" they seek appears guaranteed to elicit disdain from all sides — with the notable...
Feeding One Kid, Starving the Family
Imagine a parent who starves his children and fails to do any number of basic parental duties, but then buys one of his kids a healthy meal. Well, that's good. Great, really. But it's not enough. An act of goodness directed at one child cannot feed an entire starving...
Why Did Trumpcare Fail?
Why? That's the big question the mass media is asking about the sudden failure of the Republican leaders' relentless push to demonize and kill Obamacare. After all, the GOP bragged that they now control the legislative game and would quickly knock Obama's trademark...
All Three Branches
The History of Taxes, in One Mega-Rich Family
David Rockefeller has just passed away. You may have already heard that news. You may have not. America’s major media outlets haven’t treated Rockefeller’s death — at age 101 — as a top-of-the-news story. How things change. Once upon a time, any breaking news that...
Emperor Trump
Funny, There Are No Workers on the White House Jobs Panel
By golly, The Donald delivers. Trump and his new blue-ribbon panel of working-class champions have announced a bold new initiative to create millions of American jobs. A spokesman for the panel, Steve Schwarzman, praised Trump as a leader who wants to "do things a lot...
Muslim Ban 2.0
