Wow! Who says election promises don’t produce real change? Candidate Trump had loudly proclaimed that he would force US corporations to move their Chinese manufacturing jobs back to America. How? By imposing a whopping new...
As any farmer can tell you, if you want to harvest a crop, you’ve got to get out of the office and go to work in the field. Why can’t the Democratic Party grasp this...
Even in a barrelful of rotten apples, you might think there’d still be a few good ones. ...
The morning after the election, a social media pundit expressed amazement that Democrat Kamala Harris had lost, noting that America is enjoying “an objectively strong economy.”...
Many people feel that America’s political campaigns have become vapid PR hustles with little connection to the real-life concerns of workaday people. Luckily, Adam Swart says he has the fix for such voter malaise:...
In bold type, nearly every newspaper urges readers to “VOTE! TAKE A STAND!”...
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....
Woody Guthrie satirized Depression-era bankers who routinely gouged farmers and poor people. “I’m a jolly banker, jolly banker am I,” Woody sang, about the joyful lenders who profiteered on people’s misery. Woody’s song could be...
Forget the cartoonish “Great Man” version of American history, nearly all social progress in our country has been spurred by unheralded “nobodies” who felt a sting of injustice – and resolved to right the wrong....
A lot of working stiffs today say the system is rigged to keep them from getting ahead. One thing that might make them feel like that is this: The system is rigged against them!...