Share The mainstream media is baffled: Why would Trump promote candidates to oversee critical agencies with millions of employees and multi-billion-dollar budgets who have little to no management experience and…

Share Oligarchy is a form of government where the richest people in a country have captured its political system (or even filled it with themselves) and use that control to…

Share Alexander Hamilton thought he (and the others who wrote the Constitution) had it all figured out. He and his colleagues never imagined that a group of billionaires would spend…

Share The great lesson of the election of 2024 is that, to a large extent, class has replaced race as the single most potent political dividing line. In 1933, Franklin…

Share All is not lost. Yet. — Blue state governors and other officials are working to “Trump proof” their states and agencies. Organizations like MoveOn and Indivisible are seeing record…

Share We just elected a guy who’s fine with the planet melting down, kids getting shot in school, insurance companies going back to denying coverage for preexisting conditions, and wants…

Share When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes…

Share America’s billionaires would love to have a recession, particularly a really severe one. In a recent “town hall,” billionaire Elon Musk acknowledged what 23 Nobel Prize-winning economists across the…

Share Last night, in a brilliant speech before 75,000+ people on the ellipse in Washington DC — the place from which Trump sent a murderous mob against our Capitol —…

Share Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a repressive government will want, and…