Roaring 20s novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” Well, yes… they’re rich! ...
When will top Democratic party officials recognize that today’s electorate is not made up of moderate centrists? Rather, most Americans are anti-establishment rebels who’ve been knocked down, kicked out, and told that they don’t matter....
Years ago in Juarez, Mexico, I wandered into a carnival sideshow that flabbergasted this Texas country boy. Stumbling out, I murmured: “Now I’ve seen everything… and then some.”...
Our country’s magnificent National Park System has been called “America’s greatest idea.” These 433 treasures – along with our rich diversity of national museums and historical sites – each have their own stories to tell....
Washington’s MAGA government is shoveling massive giveaways of public money to corporate elites. Worse, though, are its takeaways of people’s power to battle the abuse of those same plutocratic corporations. Consider just three recent examples:...
Sometimes, cosmic oddities come together in comic ways. For example, Google positions the biography of right-wing Texas governor Greg Abbott right under the one for yesteryear’s slapstick comedians, Abbott and Costello....
It’s been my honor to know a few real heroes – people who’ve selflessly dared to fight greed and oppression to advance the common good. Diane Wilson, for example. For forty years, this fiery, fourth-generation...
Here’s a progressive idea I picked up from the unlikeliest of sources: Corporate CEOs! For decades, these chieftains of our economic order have been steadily implementing a very visionary process for establishing corporate wage levels....
May we take a minute to talk about your death? And mine, too. I certainly don’t want to rush either one, but there is a matter we should all consider ahead of the “event.” Namely,...
Here they come again! Another far-right-wing mob, spurred on by Trump, is storming our US Capitol! Only, these are not uncouth MAGA marauders wearing buffalo horns, breaking in, and attacking Capital police....