Years ago, when America was mired in the horror of the Vietnam war, Pete Seeger wrote a lament about the stupidity and vanity of leaders who keep plunging us into such mindless disasters. It was...
Washington’s Democratic Party establishment keeps demanding that progressive members tone down their criticism of billionaire oligarchs and corporate autocrats. Why? Because the insiders want to rebrand the party as ideologically moderate. “Time to get serious,”...
CGB stands for the Cult of Goofy Billionaires, and they are way, way, waaay goofier than you might imagine. I’m talking about prestigious, frontline, brand-name billionaires: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, Peter Thiel, and other Silicon...
Years ago, Ray Charles sang: “Them that’s got is them that gets, and I ain’t got nothin’ yet.” Millions of workaday Americans today are wailing that blues refrain, thanks to price increases caused by Donald...
“Mingy” is a useful word. It merges stingy with mean, pretty well summing up the prevailing ethic of today’s corporate bosses. Take mingy CEOs of multibillion-dollar powerhouses like Amazon and 7-Eleven. They’ve been refusing to...
There are towns in Texas named New Deal, Fair Play, Progresso, Utopia, — and even Buck Naked! But what you won’t find is any town called “Moderate, Texas.” I offer this curiosity to the monied...
Congress keeps churning out laws that the great majority of us have explicitly, consistently, and loudly said we do not want! Are those lawmakers deaf? No, their ears are stuffed with ever-increasing wads of political...
Even in this ugly era of political divisiveness under “King Donald,” some things remain bigger than partisan politics. For example, travel deep into Southwest Texas to the Mexican border, and you’ll witness two powerful forces...
“Stand back,” shout Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires, “geniuses at work!” They refer to themselves, of course, demanding that public officials, farmers, towns, environmentalists, and all others get out of their way as they impose their...
There’s a clique of plutocratic, high-tech billionaires who think they’re entitled to turn America’s farmlands and rural communities into their personal domain of predatory AI “data centers.” But a little bookstore in Tulsa, Oklahoma, recently...