| Mar 21, 2018 | Rights / DemocracySome might call the Trump administration a murderous mob. Specifically, they’ve been serial killers of the English language. The word “fact” was their first victim, assassinated last year by one of Trump’s mobsters who poisoned it with a toxic...
| Mar 14, 2018 | Economy / BusinessAmerica, can we talk? We need to talk about “free trade.” We’ve needed to have this conversation for a while, actually. Like, since the 1980s. For the past several decades, the U.S. political establishment has advocated free trade as part of a...
| | Economy / BusinessLanguage matters. For example, the words that corporate and government officials use to report on the health of America’s economy can either make clear to us commoners what’s going on — or hide and even lie about the reality we face. Consider the most common...
| Mar 7, 2018 | Peace / Security|Rights / DemocracyWe’ve reached a cruel new phase in the U.S. government’s war on immigrants without papers. And it should disturb you no matter what your views on immigration. When undocumented immigrant families are detained, they are being increasingly split up. Not only...
| | Economy / Business|Rights / DemocracyRemember last year when Donald Trump and his congressional Trumpeteers bragged that their “yuge” tax cut for corporations would spark a “yuge” corporate spending spree to create new jobs and higher wages? Well, just as they promised, we’re now...
